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...American and somehow potentially unelectable because he is well educated, is fluent in more than one language, has good taste and is well groomed? If being elected President of the U.S. requires a candidate to speak like Clint Eastwood in a bad western, pretend to like Philly cheesesteaks and appeal to lowest-common-denominator redneck values, then God help us! Please give American voters more credit. Neil Fox Helsinki...
...chief economist and insisting on tougher internal scrutiny before issuing decisions. In the Microsoft case, a special peer review panel was set up to play devil's advocate, picking holes in the arguments, before Monti was satisfied he could win. Still, Microsoft is almost certain to file an appeal in the European courts, which could drag the case out for years and limit the impact, even if it ultimately loses. Some antitrust experts say a settlement that imposed some restrictions might have been a better course of action. "A deal was possible but the Commission wanted a bit too much...
With the airplane, the real question is never “Where are you flying?” but “Which places are you avoiding by flying?” The real appeal of flight—apart from humanity’s mythical obsession with flying fantasies (remember Daedalus and Icarus?)—is not just efficiency. It’s the fact that airplanes allow us to jump over undesirable places. Coast to coast flight is implicitly about the Middleland, which we may get to know through the comforting familiarity of islands like Cincinnati...
...Mehldau’s idea of standards extends beyond the more traditional jazz fare, wherein lies much of his appeal to non-jazzheads (such as myself). Mehldau reinterprets Paul Simon’s wistful “Still Crazy After All These Years” as a perplexed and perplexing song that marvels at itself even as it brushes with indecision. The trio’s take of Radiohead’s “Everything In Its Right Place” is much more of a group piece, allowing bassist Larry Grenadier to shine on the insistent bassline that...
...show offers some surprises, as it quickly expands out of its one-dimensional chair-exhibit premise into the space inhabited. Architecture and architects pop out from behind the chairs themselves, while each chair offers its own charm and appeal...