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...WATCH AMERICAN IDOL...
...Democratic National Convention, all the cable-news outfits were yakking about what Hillary Clinton might say--except one. On C-SPAN? Empty chairs on a silent stage. It was waiting for someone to show up and actually say something. This was the only channel on which a citizen could watch all the convention speeches. Plus, it airs Prime Minister's Questions, my all-time-favorite sitcom. (No offense, Larry David...
...responsible members of society. Twenty percent of them were supporting their candidate even before he decided to run; 12% planned to spend Nov. 4 volunteering at the polls. When I asked if they wanted to vote now for the next American Idol winner, 80% told me they don't watch the show. Two graduated from high school a year early. One was voting early so she "would be able to avoid crowds and take my time and read all the propositions carefully." These people were making such well-informed decisions that none of them said they were nervous that something...
...sick as agriculture was throughout the 1920s. And for all the current ills of megabanks like Washington Mutual and Wachovia, the national banking system still enjoys a measure of stability far greater than in the 1930s--or even the '20s. The kinds of "runs" on savings institutions that we watch Jimmy Stewart battle every Christmas season are all but unimaginable, thanks in large measure to the psychological reassurance provided by a landmark New Deal innovation, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), whose authority to guarantee bank deposits has recently been expanded. And today's federal outlays make up nearly...
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