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...happened around a dinner table with Vince Vaughn in Wedding Crashers, is a nifty performer. Her charms are enough to keep the movie - entering the marketplace just as the country's financial situation becomes truly dire - from being criminally distasteful. She's got that rare gift for making slapstick seem organic. Confessions runs her through the chick-flick moves of endearment (walk into glass, run in high heels, spill food on self and others), but there are a few scenes where she cuts loose and we get to see her Lucille Ball-style warmth and wackiness. It's a simple...
...modern civilized state claims a monopoly on punishment. Mobs with pitchforks, vigilantism, frontier justice - all seem sweaty and coarse compared with the men in powdered wigs duly processing the law. But as this crisis makes clear, we are in a new frontier now, in financial badlands created by technology and globalization, with no maps and few rules, and the law has not caught up to us. Until it does, we are left with the old sanctions: symbols and shame. That still leaves the problem of knowing whom precisely to scorn. "Capitalism," John Maynard Keynes once argued, "is the astounding belief...
...assuming that Hayek wasn't at risk of contracting anything from the baby - who Hayek reported was healthy but whose mother simply had no milk - none of these caveats seem relevant. Hayek's emergency nursing more closely resembles Chinese policewoman Jiang Xiaojuan's heroic breast-feeding of several babies orphaned by the May earthquake, and few would argue she was anything but a lifesaver...
That brings us to a truism about online video: it rewards brevity and scatters attention. That's true to an extent. Five to seven minutes seem to be the sweet spot for a webisode; "Baby Panda Sneezes" loses its magic after about 11 seconds. But a funny thing happened in my cable-free week: I found myself paying closer attention to the TV shows I watched online...
While Gaylor insists that Dayton locals have gotten more and more backward over the years, Davis says that's not so. "We have a public school system that's accredited by the state," he says with a smirk. "Our kids seem to score appropriately on state tests. We even have some people with college degrees. So the H.L. Mencken attitude is tiresome. It's as ignorant as we're proposed...