Word: wisdoms
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...Cory's wisdom - she was, after all, one of the few leaders who was so beloved that her supporters often dispensed with her last name - will be all the more crucial at this juncture in history. Democracy, if only in name, has touched much of the developing world. But the legacy of People Power is constantly threatened by the repressive actions of those who later claim to represent it, from Pakistan and Iran to the Philippines itself. Aquino, in her helium-inflected voice, once mused: "I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it." Like much of what Cory...
...Time Traveler's Wife is so plangent a tale of fatal love, with two adorable people fighting to beat the odds against them, that it's surprising it took six years for it to get to the big screen. Maybe prospective producers were reluctant to buck the prevailing wisdom of a conventional happy ending. Anyway, here is the film version, directed by Robert Schwentke. It's soppy enough to suit the requirements of the weepie genre, and there's a music score that tries to cue all the emotions in viewers, as if they're incapable of locating their...
...concern in the U.S. is the weak consumer. Can we get a business recovery but no consumer recovery? The consumer is 70% of the U.S. economy, so it's hard to imagine that business can do well unless the consumer is reasonably healthy. But I think the conventional wisdom has become excessively pessimistic about the condition of the U.S. consumer. People have forgotten the effect that rising equity prices as well as the stabilization of real estate - maybe even a few upticks in residential real estate - will have on the consumer's net worth and his spending-saving behavior...
...might actually be envisaging. He thinks a type of all-access pass to News Corp.'s media properties would work. It could be delivered to any screen - a phone or other wireless device, an e-reader, a computer or a TV - all for $10 to $15 a month. Conventional wisdom is that it can't be done any other way, that people simply won't pay for news on their computer when they can get it elsewhere for free...
...cured them. After all, if he never bet against conventional wisdom, Murdoch would still be the proud owner of the Barrier Miner - the local paper of the outback town of Broken Hill, Australia - and nothing else...