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...publishes a similar monthly survey. During the summer, despite high gas prices and swings in the real estate market, consumer confidence edged upward to hover at a fairly strong level, considering the mounting bad economic signs. The Conference Board put its consumer confidence rating at 59.8 for September, a slight improvement from 58.5 in August. Compare that with the index's nearly 20-year low of 55.3 in 1991, when the U.S. fell into recession following the first war in Iraq. (In good times, the index can be well above 100 points.) But the latest series of events on Wall...
...Million Signatures Campaign” who was awarded Sweden’s illustrious Olaf Palme human rights award in March, was jailed last month along with three others for the crime of threatening national security. While the women’s movement had a slight victory in recent weeks, with the Iranian Parliament deleting Ahmadinejad’s abhorrent clauses to the bill, it is likely not the end of Ahmadinejad’s attempts to “re-Islamize” Iranian women...
...explore consciousness, to meditate on his own life, or to tease out an historical period obscured by cultural memory–feels ignored. Whether “Indignation” could bear the weight of a longer story is uncertain, but it certainly wouldn’t feel so slight.—Staff writer Ryan Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...
...moments are only hinted at, rather than explained outright through clunky dialogue. This decision, however, did not complicate the acting process. “I explained everything that happened to the characters before page one of the script,” Hammer said. Still, he sometimes gave the actors slightly different versions of their background stories because, according to Hammer, “that’s the way the truth is.” He would then put the actors together and have them rehearse a scene, each person believing something slightly different about the way the fictional events...
...slight change can just barely be detected. Now, the band appears to be content catering to a larger, potentially more-discerning audience. Though the notion of creating popular music may be the bane of some artists’ careers, TV on the Radio finds nothing wrong with bridging the gap between the masses and the critics...