The Depression

The Pope, The Arts, A Nation in Crisis

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

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Raymond J. Learsy

We as a nation have not been upholding ample support for the arts, despite the deep spiritual healing that it can bring -- its joys, its shared experience, its sense of what and who we are.

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An Aging Rock Critic's Reasons To Be Cheerful, Part 1

David Wild | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

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David Wild

Until the Dow is back above 10,000 and/or there is peace in the Middle East, I hereby pledge to, on some semi-occasional basis, offer some reasons to be cheerful during our current Depression.

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