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...government bonds? Don't tell Jim. "How could anybody in their right mind lend money to the U.S. government at 4% for 30 years?" He draws out the enunciation of "30 years" as if he can't even believe he's saying it, can't believe that anyone could be that stupid. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...unmistakable undertone of many of the conversations I have daily is that Americans are a people whose time has come and gone. Asian policymakers tell me of the need to diversify their economies away from the U.S.; corporate leaders talk of building new businesses in other emerging markets; economists predict how China and India will make gains at the expense of the U.S. (See "Best Photos of the Year, 2008: The American Economy: Down...
...school sitcom would have told this joke as a zinger ("Yeah, well, tell your nesting instinct it left a Ding-Dong wrapper on the kitchen counter!" [Canned laughter]). This screwball-vérité style, by adding a layer of visual irony, allows Modern Family to pack its jokes tighter (the straight line and the contradiction are simultaneous) and connects the audience more intimately. You're not just a fan; you're a voyeur...
...best cover you've run in years--a man we can trust to tell it "like it really is." We little ol' unimportant taxpayers with no tax loopholes are just looking for accountability and transparency in the government, as we were promised and as we expect from the people who serve us. Glenn Beck for TIME's Person of the Year...
...photographs in the following pages won't tell us what the grand arc of U.S. policy in South Asia should be. What they try to tell us is something about what life is like for the brave men who carry out that policy, one day at a time. If it's true that sometimes we've let ourselves lose sight of Afghanistan, then as a start, let's look here...