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...Aussie adaptation Kath and Kim (Thursdays, 8:30 p.m. E.T.; debuts Oct. 9) is the new import with the highest profile, partly because NBC needs a hit badly and partly because NBC's new chief, Ben Silverman, was behind the successful importation of The Office and Ugly Betty. Kath and Kim, though, shows that, as with Vegemite, not all flavors are so easily translated. The premise is the same as the original: single fortysomething Kath (Molly Shannon) has her life disrupted when her dim-bulb daughter Kim (Selma Blair) leaves her husband and shows up at Kath's doorstep. Like...
...That illustrates an important point: the line between the problem's being a credit crunch and the problem's being an economic slowdown is blurring. In late September, BDO Seidman, an accounting and consulting firm, surveyed chief financial officers at 100 large retailers and found that 41% had experienced a tightening of credit by their lenders. That finding was set right next to another: that 37% of retailers planned to reduce inventory purchases for the rest of the year. Sounds like Jane Huelle's Dog Shop all over again...
...Martinez is also the chief administrator of the “Harvard Class of 2012” Facebook group, which has 1,470 members. Not related to his UC campaign, Martinez sent reminders to group members about Harvard forms due before the beginning of school year...
...leading proponents of constitutional originalism. He opposes the concept of a “living Constitution,” that the Constitution’s meaning should be adapated to fit the needs of contemporary society. In the speech, Scalia invoked the era before Earl Warren became Chief Justice in the mid-20th century, when the standard view held that the Constitution should be “no different from any other legal text, such as a statute.” “It bears a static meaning which does not change from generation to generation...
...Israeli military sources told TIME. Israel has its own radar system trained on Iran, but it's range is much shorter. Still, some see several drawbacks for Israel in the radar, and blame Defense Minister Ehud Barak for requesting its deployment in Israel without consulting anyone other than his chief of staff. Some in the upper echelons of the Israeli Defense Force fear that although the radar will enhance Israel's protection against Iran, it may also open up Israel's own military secrets to the Americans...