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...American imagination, the New York City of the 1970s was a domestic war zone: Vietnam brought home. The murder rate had soared, the wrong kinds of drugs were available on any corner, and the whole place was filthy; Harry Smith, the CBS news anchor, called the city "Calcutta without the cows." New York was nearly bankrupt, and the President was disinclined to help, provoking the Daily News to the decade's iconic headline, "Ford to City: Drop Dead." An army of the emotionally disturbed, evicted en masse from state mental hospitals, made cardboard-box homes on the streets. Graffiti festooned...
...Confidential, does try to put a stethoscope to the current national malaise when it alludes, toward the end, to the toxic duplicity of insider trading. There's also a superrich mayor (James Gandolfini) who could be Michael Bloomberg with a bigger gut. But most of the film takes place in a fantasy present, where the Dow is at 11,000 - a relic of that halcyon era of 2008, when the movie was shot. And by emphasizing the cop-killer relationship, the picture loses the original's busy fresco of New Yawk types. Pushing, complaining, invading the space of the movie...
...bill gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broad new powers to regulate produce at the farm level and review corporate records on activities ranging from food-processing to pathogen-testing. Inspections that now occur an average of once every 10 years would take place as often as once every six months for certain items. Foreign governments whose companies send high-risk products to the U.S., like seafood from China, would be required to certify that those exports comply with U.S. health standards. (See pictures of urban farms...
...school gym in a swing state - well, that was really the point. The President journeyed to Green Bay, Wis., to lend his popularity to the cause of health-care reform, hoping to bring to bear all the campaign skills that got him to the White House in the first place...
...everyone is buying it. "All bodies executing the elections are uniformly pro-Ahmadinejad," protested former Interior Minister Ali-Akbar Mohtashamipour, who currently heads the Mousavi campaign's election-supervision committee, at a press conference on Wednesday. "Of course, no interference in the votes can take place except in favor of their own candidate," he said. Mohtashamipour also expressed concerns that Ahmadinejad had received a fatwa to slander some of the Islamic republic's stalwarts, like Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, in televised debates in recent weeks, implying that he could attain further sanctions from hard-line clerics to meddle with votes...