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...last Tuesday morning the topic was all about "the other aspect of American security," as Bush put it - jobs and the economy. As he prepared to barnstorm the country for his plan to eliminate the tax on dividends and accelerate income-tax rate cuts, the president was in no mood to go off message. "We understand capital," Bush asserted, laying the groundwork for his central argument that tax cuts spur growth and serve as a cure-all for most economic ills. "I remember in the '80s, when people said we will have deficits forever," Bush said. "The next thing...
...show’s insistence on cinematic effect sometimes leads to forced and unnecessarily maudlin moments in the action. Occasionally the music drowns out the actors’ voices and ultimately dictates, not complements, the mood of a scene...
...that it is finally happening," Pantakis said, pausing to catch her breath at the border, "I feel strange and emotional." The most impenetrable barrier in Europe - complete with razor wire, U.N. peacekeepers and venomous graffiti - was transformed overnight into a block party. Even Turkish Cypriot police got in the mood, helping elderly Greeks cross the line. A traffic jam 10 km long snaked back from the border. At a small seaside café, a Turkish Cypriot student traded stories with visiting Greek Cypriot teens in broken English. "We are taught the Greeks will kill you," he explained. "They're taught...
Further boosting the mood at home has been the absence of any large-scale Muslim uprising. Indeed, Iraqi citizens welcomed U.S. troops into Baghdad, helping calm worries, at least in the short term, about massive numbers of new recruits to terrorist groups. And Saddam did not use chemical or biological weapons. These worst-case nightmares helped paralyze the economy for months. In poll after poll, executives said war uncertainty was their top reason for mothballing their checkbooks. With the war winding down, here's why you should be optimistic...
Indeed, the mood in the restaurant is light on Tuesday as Bezjian and his brother, Richie, jokingly remember the clown’s routine...