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December 3, 2008
As a group, broadcast network journalists are incredibly adaptable. When their grim prophecies refuse to fulfill themselves, they persevere and find the clouds in the silver linings.
In the…
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December 2, 2008
It may have been nothing but a publicity stunt, but it didn’t come cheap for Ford Motor Company CEO Alan R. Mulally.
After being embarrassed in front of a congressional committee for flying in…
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December 2, 2008
Editor, USA Today
Dear Editor:
Your editorial headlined “Our view on Black Friday: Is your cashier cranky? Big Brother may be watching” (Nov. 28) caused me to think that government is using private retailers to snoop on citizens. But no: you're…
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December 2, 2008
Give the auto companies billions of dollars or Americans will all be lining up for soup.
At least that was the warning from the mayor of Lansing, Mich. “You know this is a sure prescription to…
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December 2, 2008
Editor, The New York Times
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Bob Herbert wants President Obama to "begin addressing on day one the interests of those who are not rich and who have not had the ear of those in power" ( "A Team of…
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December 2, 2008
CNBC “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer said on NBC’s “Today” show Dec. 2 that comparisons between the current economy and the Great Depression are “scare tactics.” Maybe he forgot about his own reliance on the juxtaposition.…
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December 2, 2008
When Barack Obama touted his plan to “spread the wealth around,” conservatives worried about the creep of Socialism – or Socialist creeps – coming to Washington. But as millions of zealous Obama worshippers prepare to invade the nation’s…
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December 1, 2008
Editor, The New York Times Book Review
229 West 43rd St.
New York, NY 10036
To the Editor:
Reviewing Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, David Leonhardt favorably quotes the author: "We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that…
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December 1, 2008
It’s 2008. More than 80 percent of Americans have cell phones; many others have video game consoles, and the iPod is seemingly ubiquitous.
Yet the news media insist that America is embroiled…
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December 1, 2008
A simple, “Oops, we were wrong – things weren’t as bad as we predicted,” would have sufficed. But that would have meant straying from the message that everything is bad with the American economy.
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