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GARRISON KEILLOR
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Getting worked up over a down market
It's hard to photograph a falling stock market, so the stories about the big Dow Jones plunge showed solemn-faced traders on the floor of the New York exchange or an electronic news banner in Times Square. The banner (what you could see of it) read, "Stocks Plummet Amid Cred," while in the foreground people crossed the street looking rather unkerfluffed. In other words, the story was illustrated with a picture of the story being reported. Like when your econ professor said, "This is very important," and you wrote in your notebook, "Important."
Getting the rubbish ready for 2008
In Washington there are a couple of private political action committees formed by members of the U.S. House political party caucuses. They're called the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Letters to the Editor
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