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...short time in office, Kennedy pursued nuclear-arms reduction, fought for civil rights and established the Peace Corps. In the same amount of time, Bush has run up a massive budget deficit, alienated most of the world and given tax cuts to the very rich. John F. Kennedy vs. George W. Bush? It's a no-brainer! JAMES HICKEY Denver
...credit since 1995. In almost all of his films, a star is hired to give the production international attention, and then the movie is made with whatever is left of the budget. This system has led to such Citizen Kane-esque opuses as Half Past Dead, Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever, and the modern classic Battlefield Earth. It’s that kind of ethos that may be necessary for an auteur like Mamet to attain the status of “box office draw,” but it irreparably damages his ambition by tacking on mishmash such as this...
...offerings, when Donald Kaufman describes the screenplay he’s working on: “So the killer flees on horseback with the girl, the cop’s after them on a motorcycle and it’s like a battle between motors and horses, like technology vs. horse...
...that enemy. That logic suggests bin Laden and his leadership circle would see a call for war against Shiites as inherently dangerous to al-Qaeda's wider objectives. Which means the dynamic confronting the U.S. both in Iraq and the wider Arab world seldom conforms to the binary Sunni vs. Shiite simplicities of which some in Washington appear to be rather fond...
History does show some correlation. Since the Coolidge Administration (1923-29), according to The Stock Trader's Almanac, stocks have gained an average of 14.5% in year three of a presidency and 7.7% in year four vs. less than 6% in year one and year two. But within those averages lurk vast annual variations. Under F.D.R., year one produced a 66.7% gain. The market's lousiest annual return ever--a 52.7% loss--occurred in the third year of Herbert Hoover's Administration. So you can lose your shirt betting the cycle will repeat itself...