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...comic satire, the satire part of which is more satisfying than the comic. As a portrait of pre-recession, debt-financed, image-obsessed Los Angeles, Death By Leisure is spot-on in its details, though the British writer succeeds in making the city sound like the worst place in America, full of status-obsessed grifters like himself. Whether it's sneaking into Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch or finagling his way into a studio exec bash, Ayres simultaneously spits on and revels in the all-consuming shallowness of his time and place: gargantuan SUV's, gated communities, multi-million dollar...
That's so weird because when [your previous album] Post-War came out everyone was saying that it was a theme album about what America would be like after Iraq. I assumed that you'd written a number of songs around that. I definitely was inspired by articles I was reading about the war, but the thing that I was most interested in was the cycle - the similarities between what we're going through right now and what people went through after the last war we were in. So I'm more interested in common cycles than writing about something...
When most people hear the term "green building," they probably imagine something like Bank of America's (BoA) soon-to-be-completed Midtown Manhattan headquarters. The skyscraper will have floor-to-ceiling insulating glass walls, automatic light dimming, water recycling, air filtration and on-site power generation. Those green features have helped make the BoA Tower the first skyscraper to win a Platinum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating, the highest possible such award. They also helped ensure that the tower won't be cheap - the project is estimated to cost about $1 billion. (Read "Building Materials: Cementing...
...House life can cultivate a sense of connectedness,” he said. Prior to the announcement, some Pfoho residents had said they hoped to see greater diversity in the new House Master selection.“We have a president [Barack Obama] who represents the diverse experience of America,” said Alneada D. Biggers ’10, Pfoho resident and president of the Association of Black Harvard Women, before news of the Christakis appointment broke. “It would be nice to have a House Master who represents...
...President Barack Obama in a recent interview was critical of the Venezuelan and his stridently anti-U.S. stance. Washington will now watch to see if Chávez, who controls the western hemisphere's largest oil reserves, can retain his boisterous influence in the Americas - and survive politically at home - if oil prices don't rebound and the economy continues to slide. "The futures markets seem to think oil prices will rise soon enough that Chávez won't have to dip into his foreign reserves, which are about 25% of Venezuela's GDP," says Mark Weisbrot, head...