An American Dream Gone Sour
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If Anna Nicole Smith messed up her life, she did so by wanting the things that so many Americans want - fame and fortune - but wanting them more, clumsily and ultimately self-destructively.
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Comment is free: Gary Younge:  The Bush years have been so crushing that progressives have set their expectations low.
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The prospect of such a combination is generating excitement, but it's bad news for both sides.
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The films leading the race tended to be long on grandeur and bleak in outlook. Is it a reflection of America's mood?
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Disastrous service can turn off customers and investors.
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A new HBO documentary transports us back to a time when Brooklyn and baseball were the apotheosis of the American dream.
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Optimism without substance equals bad news.
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A PBS documentary makes the case that Americans have tuned out marketers pitching everything from cars to candidates. The result: even more crass attempts to get through, and a fragmentation of American society. By Jason Silverman.
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Team USA&#39;s 94-90 loss to Lithuania last night was not revelation, but confirmation. It reaffirmed that the erstwhile Dream Team is deeply flawed and poorly suited to international basketball; that its shooting
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When Jonathan Rubinstein decided to ditch his career to open a coffee bar in Manhattan, his friends and advisers thought he was making a terrible mistake.
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If your brain is in a free-association mood, and you tune in âThe Dying Fields,â a âWide Angleâ installment tonight on PBS about farmers in India caught in a debt nightmare, you may find yourself thinking at first of Americaâs mortgage mess.
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As bad as they were, the 2007 housing start numbers probably should have been worse.
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Arts & entertainment: America is in mourning for the show that has seeped its way into the nation's consciousness.
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Millions of Americans, frightened off by news reports of long lines or discouraged by their own failed attempts, have given up on getting
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The world used to be green with envy over the greenback, but now the stuff in your wallet can&#39;t seem to shake the blues. It&#39;s not that the United States is on the verge of singing &quot;Brother, Can You Spare a
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NEW ORLEANS -- It was an ill-advised journey to a moribund city, the place of my birth and upbringing. Family and friends, all living elsewhere, begged me not to come here. My wife, Mary Anne, feared that I would become depressed.
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Like a latter-day Ellis Island, the U.S. Open bristled with overseas energy, overseas hopes, overseas dreams.