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Is anyone not happy that 2009 is finally over?

A decade that started with so much promise has ended with a thud, a final and brutal farewell to a generally dismal 10 years. The Aughts were punctuated with terror, wars, election controversies and a near catastrophic economic meltdown. Oh, there were some good financial times somewhere around the middle, but as it turned out we were dancing on quicksand. Farewell to the fraught Aughts.

So what’s in store for 2010? After this past year, it’s a question whose answer elicits hope and fear. Could it possibly get worse? Will it finally get better? The economists tell us we have started digging ourselves out of the quicksand, but it will be a slow struggle as we try to move to firmer ground.