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...video stores in Chicago and San Francisco (always out, of course), and had read with relish the lyrical synopsis of the film that is among the best recountings of any film in literature: three pages halfway through Don DeLillo's opus on the American cultural landscape of the 20th century, Underworld. So what's all the fuss about? The movie documents a sex, drugs and rock n' roll party that's over despite most not wanting to admit it. It presents a portrait of the band tired of touring and feigning interest, of the boring, naked groupies, of life...
...Farewell to a Decent Man" [Jan. 15]: Shame on TIME for insufficiently acknowledging the contributions of Gerald Ford, perhaps one of the most important American Presidents of the 20th century--certainly one of the most decent. Ford deserved to be on TIME's cover. He may not have been flashy or tested well with TV audiences, but he was a President with courage, wisdom, honesty, integrity and compassion--in other words, a leader in whom we could place our trust. What other person could have done the hard but necessary work of leading the country out of, as President Ford...
...Melbourne University that the Australian economy needs an "education revolution." He issued a discussion paper that placed education at the center of the country's long-term economic future and Labor's historical devotion to fairness: "If the 19th century was driven by an industrial revolution, and the 20th century by a technological revolution, what is needed for the 21st century is an education revolution." Rudd pointed to a slide in workers' productivity. A decade ago, Australians' output was at 85% of U.S. levels; by 2005 it had dropped to 79%. Rudd argued that the country lacked the skills...
...engaging those needs, it might well give Chavez and his ilk less of an excuse to move further left. It might also help Latin America find its own third way between radical socialism and reactionary capitalism, extremes that pulled the region like a torture rack for most of the 20th century...
...make no pretense to timelessness, a tempting fantasy when we think about nature but a hopeless ambition in landscape design, which is always a product of its time. So the Weiss/Manfredi design for the Seattle park, with its pulsing tectonics and dynamic lines, is clearly a product of late 20th--early 21st century thinking, the era of Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind and their thunderbolt architecture...