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...Davies has been brilliantly memorializing his Liverpool youth for a quarter century: in The Terence Davies Trilogy of short films, in Distant Voices, Still Lives (the most powerful aesthetic autobiography I know) and The Long Day Dying. His new film has elements of a memoir: of a Catholic boy discovering his love for movies and, later, his love for other men. But this is mainly a biography of a place and time: of its stately old civic monuments and, later, its soulless estates (an expression, Davies says in the narration, of "the British genius for creating the dismal...
...long-term trajectory of energy prices and their effect on the economy. Elected officials can do this by steering Americans away from oil and toward other energy sources and conservation measures - or by failing to do so, which has been the laissez-faire policy of the past quarter-century and has helped land us in our current sorry situation...
...toll of Cyclone Nargis will skyrocket. Already, disease is beginning to stalk makeshift refugee camps set up in monasteries and schools. In Laputta, 58 refugee camps have been set up for tens of thousands of dazed villagers who have nowhere else to go; the local hospital reports that one-quarter of new patients have diarrhea, a potential harbinger of killer epidemics. A Rangoon doctor says his hospital has run out of fully trained medical staff and is now sending interns to the disaster scene. International health officials warn that as many people could perish in the aftermath of the storm...
...feel that way. In January, when Under Armour announced heavy marketing costs, including a $4.4 million Super Bowl ad for the launch of the training shoe, its stock dropped 33%, to $28.80 a share, over a two-day period. Under Armour also announced that $28 million in first-quarter marketing expenses, an increase of 103%, helped send profits down 71% for that quarter...
...think what's true is that we're recession-resistant.' CHRISTIE HEFNER, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, conceding that pornography is not recession-proof; the company lost $3.1 million in the first quarter...