20 December 2007: Morning By The Morning News — 20 Dec 2007 A prescient choice, we hope not too prescient: Putin is the Person of the Year. Increasing needs for global communication mean accurate online translation is a must: a review of what's available. "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." The most memorable quotes of 2007. England's number-one song is anybody's game this Christmas: it could be a six-year-old, a puppet, or Soulja Boy. The number-one film in the U.K. is The Golden Compass--the Vatican called it "the most anti-Christmas film possible." The "floating cross" in Mike Huckabee's Christmas spot is just a bookshelf, but morse code blinking patterns are just around the corner. Cats are nondenominational. Behind the market strategy of this year's holiday sweater. Tacky Christmas decorations incite humbug amongst neighbors, treehuggers, vandals. The Christmas shopping season can account for as much as 40 percent of a retail store's annual revenue and as much as three-quarters of its annual profit. Employees believe CEOs are overpaid; so do CEOs. New MetroCard prices are either a good or bad deal for subway riders, except nobody can cut through the math. It costs $36,264.39 to buy your true love the 12 Days of Christmas, but it includes a Spice Girls concert. Paying for sex: Monkeys do it too.
