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With the Super Bowl tomorrow, a developing crisis has emerged. "Channel 7 News" reports on the crisis, but what was the cause? One company has stepped forward to claim responsibility for...

The Iran hostage-crisis thriller "Argo" has taken the top honor at the Producers Guild Awards.
Ben Affleck and Grant Heslov received the award on Saturday  at the Beverly Hilton Hotel by the Producers Guild of America, as "Argo" beat out nine other films, in them the Civil War saga "Lincoln," the

In this issue of Mute there is a generalised refusal to have our selves, in the widest sense of the word, put to work. As we start to see the real repercussions of the financial crisis bite, the Bretton Woods ideological state apparatus is looking rather threadbare. The strategy to placate social desires through cheap credit, property acquisition and the decoration of domestic surfaces continues against a muted backdrop of factory occupations, boss-nappings, foreclosures, and the dregs of what looks to be Big Brother's last season. It is tempting to imagine that the mass tutelage in narcissism which has helped pacify the social body for so long might collapse under the weight of its own vacuity and unsustainable cruelty. As capitalism falters in its corralling of desires, writers in this issue think about how such energies might escape from their official channels.

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Subaru is withdrawing from the world rally championships because of the global financial crisis. Fuji heavy Industries made the announcement at a press conference. They withdraw along with Suz...