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...writer-director of independent films such as George Washington and All The Real Girls, David Gordon Green has earned a reputation for being a master of small-budget, Southern-set stories full of delicate characterizations. He gleefully chucks most of that out the window with his latest directorial effort, the stoner action comedy Pineapple Express. With fingers crossed for his first commercial success, Gordon Green spoke to TIME from Los Angeles...
...Iraq Windfall Profits in Iraq? Thanks to soaring oil revenues, Iraq could have a cumulative budget surplus of $79 billion by the end of the year, the Government Accountability Office reported. And yet, of the $67 billion the Iraqi government spent from 2005 to 2007, just 1% went toward infrastructure projects. Senators Carl Levin and John Warner, who requested the report, expressed outrage at Iraq's weak spending record; U.S. taxpayers have spent $48 billion on Iraq reconstruction...
...nickname His MaJetski. His relaxed behavior in the first years of his reign made him an easy target for jihadi propagandists. But after the Casablanca bombings, the King began to assume more control: he ditched a few of his late father's widely unpopular courtiers, signed off on a budget for rural education - literacy countrywide is 52% - and built low-income housing in Casablanca and Rabat...
...Bailing out what are publicly held companies is not what the Bush team came to Washington to do. But what is really surprising about making deals with the opposition? It was reminiscent of the way Bill Clinton had to rely on Republican votes to win passage of a balanced budget measure and free trade measures in the early 1990s...
...advisers - people like Bob Rubin, Larry Summers, Warren Buffett, Bob Reich; experts who seemed a sedimentary layer more recent than McCain's crowd but still more a part of the past than of the future. They had cleaned up the Reagan-era mess. They had actually balanced the budget and created a surplus. They had - contra voodoo - raised taxes and yet produced an economic boom. There was a fair amount of argument behind closed doors, I'm told, between the two groups that sparred at the dawn of the Clinton era, the deficit hawks and the populists...