"In an effort to burnish its tarnished image on Wall Street
and Main Street, McDonald's has formed a partnership with ... Paul Newman. Mr. Newman ... has agreed to sell McDonald's a line of salad dressing,
similar to the bottled dressing made by his company,
Newman's Own. Under the same philanthropic principle that
guides Newman's Own, Mr. Newman said, all after-tax profits
from the deal will be given to charity. ... The partnership does give an aura of wholesomeness to
McDonald's and its food, said the food and science writer

Have you heard journalists and commentators using the term "market crash?" Neither have we, and we wonder why not given the facts. Reuters reports today that British "blue-chips slumped ... as
investors bailed out of financials and oils and fretted over the
outlook for firms like Canary Wharf and Reuters. Heavyweight banks,
insurers and pension funds -- formerly
prime supporters of equities -- sold each others' stocks to move
deeper into the safety of cash and bonds, while oil giant BP sagged after a

"Five years ago ... The
Weekly Standard made the broad, seemingly preposterous
assertion that America was entitled and even compelled to
engineer regime change in Iraq. But under the current
administration, driven by 9/11, that contention has become
conventional wisdom. ... 'I am impressed by their success,' said Senator John