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...time when audiences are turning away from broadcast TV to other forms of entertainment, why do New Year's broadcasts still draw decent crowds? There are fewer and fewer places for destination television. When Seinfeld was on NBC on Thursday nights, you had to go home and watch it. You couldn't get it anywhere else. Now Americans are watching on their iPods, their computers, their DVRs. You're not gonna record the ball drop and watch it later...
...troubles this movie recounts: The first wife who contemptuously refuses to believe in Dewey's dream, the second wife who endlessly rebuffs his sexual blandishments, the trips up musical blind alleys (it's almost worth the price of admission to watch Dewey during his Bob Dylan and Beatles phases). And that says nothing about the ways inspirations for his songs strike...
...tree, the extravagant and costly family gifts, the visiting relatives who wish they were somewhere else, the big dinner, the disorganized cleanup afterward and the demolished, sad-looking house we are left with. Yet despite it all, we never fail to say to ourselves, "We did it." When we watch the movie every year, we are not laughing at Griswold's unreal expectations or foibles - we are laughing at ourselves. Craig J. Miller, DUNCANSVILLE...
Under El-Erian's watch in fiscal year 2007, Harvard's endowment earned returns of 23 percent, ballooning from $29.2 billion to $34.9 billion, even after $1 billion was withdrawn to underwrite nearly a third of the University's operating costs...
...November study by South Africa's Institute for Race Relations found the numbers of people living on less than $1 a day rose from 1.89 million in 1996 to 4.2 million in 2005. The fact that poverty has grown along with the economy on Mbeki's watch works in the favor of Zuma, whose popular appeal is rooted in his peasant background with no formal education. In popular perception, the aloof and bookish Mbeki's exclusion of Zuma from the government was an echo of the exclusion of South Africa's poor from the fruits of South Africa's boom...