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"Are you a good American? Are you moved by the distress of your fellow-ciitzens - twelve million of them unemployed - by the collapse of industry, the decline of trade, the spread of destitution, the halt of progress in your country?" If your answer is affirmative, then your duty is clear: "Americans must buy American goods to the exclusion of any other goods, of any other products, of any other services." Prosperity can only be restored by applying "our purchasing power to the resuscitation of the American market." Led by the chain of newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst and...

Don't waste your time, girls - some romances are not meant to be, writes Caroline Overington. Is there a woman alive who hasn't sat on the couch, sobbing and saying: "Why doesn't he call?" Well, now we know: he's just not that into you. Sounds simple, no? Yet a guide for women that explains this basic concept has taken the book world by storm. The book, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys, has reached the top of the bestseller lists in The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal. It was...

Even before Sen. John Kerry took the stage of Fanueil Hall in Boston to give his concession speech, Democrats had begun soul-searching. "We need new talent ... it's time for a new team,'' said Democratic volunteer Bruce Wiljanen, who was sitting on the second-floor balcony waiting to see his party's 2004 candidate acknowledge defeat. A Kerry or a Hillary Clinton, he said, will not reach out to the millions of Americans in the red states in the next election. "We've got to get a new manager and trade a few players," he said. But, "do the party leaders have it...