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...Meanwhile, there's evidence that the disconnect between traders and macroeconomic realities is matched by a divide over how market movers and their publics see things. After the French government pledged to guarantee all money in private savings funds, a poll published Friday by the daily Le Figaro showed 79% of the public expressing confidence in the stability of the banks. A similar poll in Germany found 57% feeling protected by government promises to cover private savings...
...nurture you and protect you--and members of other tribes, who see you as a competitor for food and mates. Your very survival can turn on making this distinction quickly and reliably; as a result, the primal wiring that makes such discrimination possible is not very easy to disconnect. And in a culture like ours, in which race is an issue we grapple with nearly every day, the impulse may have heightened over time...
...deconstructed would do the academy proud. Barack Obama’s reference in front of an Iowa crowd last year to the rising price of arugula (as opposed, one imagines, to iceberg lettuce or a nice thick T-bone) was touted by many as proof of his elitist disconnect from middle America. The official comment that John McCain was “aware of the Internet” was neatly transfigured into an image of the Republican as an old fogey hunt-and-pecking at his dusty Underwood...
...stop kiss.” Throughout the play, the bench remains as a constant reminder of the gap between where the characters are and where their emotions are leading them.“Stop Kiss” brings its audience on the journey of bridging that disconnect. It uses its story not as a statement about politics, but about overcoming doubts and letting love run its course unhindered by societal or personal expectations. The exceptional story and sincere performances are certain to leave their audiences deeply moved...
...biggest disconnect is that people out there don’t understand the impact on their daily lives,” she said. CORRECTION