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White House releases four memos detailing interrogation methods used against suspects, prompting uproar. They also gave “assurance that those CIA officials are in the clear, as long as their actions were in line with the legal advice at the time.” Former CIA Director Michael Hayden says administration has eliminated those methods just by releasing memos.

Why isn’t the upper middle class splurging, when they have plenty of money to do it? “Per day spending by people making more than $90,000 has fallen by nearly 40 percent. The confidence of wealthy individuals, who considered themselves savvy investors, has been shattered by the meltdown of safe investments.” It’s called fear itself.

Will Ferrell. Bear Grylls. Man vs. Wild vs. Comedian. This is potentially a truly epic television event, the kind that comes along only once, twice a summer. Ferrell will fit in on the Discovery Channel, where “It’s a formidable scent. It stings the nostrils. In a good way” can be applied to numerous situations.

VARANASI, India (Reuters) – From the snowbound Chinese border to holy Ganges cities, tens of millions of Indians began voting Thursday in a month-long election with signs that an unstable coalition may emerge in the middle of an economic slowdown.