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This is a reasonable qualm, but as Max might say, "Now stop!" Jonze, chronicler of uncertain adulthood in Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, has done a masterly job of bringing Sendak's work to the screen. He has broken one Hollywood doctrine: the notion that children's cinema is best devised for miniature couch potatoes who require a steady stream of laughs, action sequences and references to flatulence. Even the best American children's movies, like those made by Pixar, embed their heartfelt messages in what are fundamentally entertainments. The mysterious emotional turmoil and, let's face it, weirdness that...
...also a welcome counterbalance to media coverage of the issue, which often focuses on uninsured children and families. Amid the grim statistics, the foundation mentions a bright spot: the fact that recent expansion of children's health-care programs has helped lower the number of uninsured children. The notion that young people should have access to adequate health care has long drawn bipartisan political support; reaching that same goal with adults has, until now, proven far more difficult to accomplish...
...sure, maybe Rush isn't the players' dream boss, nor is he even favored by other owners, including Jim Irsay. But the notion that you need to occupy some kind of moral high ground to be able to extract profit from a monopoly sport that routinely exploits its criminally inclined workforce leaves me unmoved. The NFL is just another big business - why should it be anything less - only with a huge amount of ego attached to it. Rush should fit in quite well...
...notion that anyone is now actually in control of this process is an illusion. But to the extent that anyone's hand is on the tiller, it is Reid's. Over the next four weeks, it is Reid who will decide whether to permit votes - and in what order - on amendments that could make the final version look very different from the one approved Tuesday afternoon by the Finance Committee. There will be fights over the lack of a public option in the bill, and efforts to reinstate one. Reid is expecting a battle over the size of the subsidies...
...Then again, the hypothetical Martian would also scratch his head at the notion of paper money. The dollar has no intrinsic value. It has become the world's storehouse of value because it is backed by the economic might of the U.S. If another super-economy emerges, be it the European Union, China, India, Brazil or Russia, then that new power's currency could replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, just as the dollar replaced sterling in the last century. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...