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...Such appreciation is evident on the candidates' MySpace message boards. Through these virtual guestbooks, young supporters cheer on the candidates, and each other."Scott," a MySpace member, had this comment on Ritter's profile: "The new era of politics is beginning," Scott wrote. "The youth have decided to make a difference and want our opinion to influence politics. After all, it's our future... You have my vote...
Honey. That word describes the tenor of both her voice and her roles. In 12 years as a star at the lion of studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and for decades afterward, June Allyson purred sweet reason to the prime men of her era: Jimmy Stewart (in three movies), Humphrey Bogart (in Battle Circus), William Holden (Executive Suite) and her husband, Dick Powell. Other women might get the showy parts, and the Oscars. Allyson, in her movies, got the wedding ring. And from her fans, she received the Photoplay Magazine citation as 1954's Most Popular Female Star...
...that was then, and this is now--now being the era of, to take a convenient example, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. Like the first Pirates three years ago, the sequel, which opened last week, pits Johnny Depp against something like a hundred million bucks' worth of special effects. He can't hold his own against them...
...year and the Nikkei stock index is up 66% in three years. Spending is up, wages are up, even property prices are rising again, and unemployment is at an eight-year low. With conditions improving, Fukui has made no secret of his desire to end the anomalous zero-interest era, saying he favors acting early and in small steps. In March, the BOJ declared an end to its quantitative-easing campaign, and it has since tightened the money supply considerably, draining an astonishing $181 billion from the system in four months. Economic growth has risen steadily since March, while...
...Israel is a bipartisan article of faith in Washington. So it is worth asking how it has come to pass that as Israel digs itself into a hole in Gaza, the U.S. appears to be paralyzed on the sidelines. The traditional role of U.S. administrations, established during the Nixon era, had been to balance the interests of Israel and its Arab neighbors, so that when conflict threatened to spiral out of control, Washington had the access to, and the leverage over, all sides necessary to avert catastrophe. Not the current Bush administration, whose policies have tilted so close to Israel...