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...efficient, quasi-new-media version of that process? Not yet. The magazine is available for sale online, but MagCloud doesn't distribute to Australia, where it's reasonable to assume interest will be highest. (Powazek offered to send it to anyone who wanted it, and one Australian took a bulk order for local distribution.) Delivery from MagCloud can take up to two weeks, which is like baking fresh bread and shelving it. HP has plans to shorten the lead time, but it's at the mercy of the postal service. Meanwhile, newsstands remain the point of purchase for most commemorative...
...feeling the pinch; there have been redundancies at most titles, and many predict increasing consolidation of national and regional titles. Observer journalists still fear the Guardian-ization of their newspaper. A union representative warned that any attempt to impose compulsory staff cuts would trigger a strike ballot. But the bulk of the evening was devoted to fond reminiscences of past Observer glories and readings from its archive. (Wisely, nobody attempted the 26,000-word leading article published in 1956, a translation of Nikita Khrushchev's famous speech attacking Joseph Stalin.) "Are there any more questions?" asked David Mitchell, a British...
...With its base cracking, the left does what comes naturally; it splinters. In Germany, the first to bolt were the Greens in the 1970s, with a policy mix of anarchy, culture wars, environmentalism and pacifism. They are now safely on the road to embourgeoisement, and no wonder: the bulk of their supporters - teachers, social workers, the "caring classes" - are employed by the state. Next to go was the hard left, Die Linke, an amalgam of former East German communists and West German leftists who could not stomach the reformism of Schröder when he led the SPD. In some...
...Symbol of Resilience These days juritza makes a living as a tour guide and one-man antidote to ostalgie. But the bulk of Berlin's tourist industry colludes in revisionism, selling Berlin's history to visitors in meaningless lumps, like the wall peckers hawking pieces of the Wall. Yet just as you despair that Germany will ever escape its conflicted sense of the past, the Wall trail crosses the River Spree, and symbols of the nation's astounding resilience come into view. The Reichstag, opened in 1894 when Germany was a young nation-state, and later burned as the Nazis...
...them pain. On the contrary, Republicans are betting that whatever does get passed exclusively by their opponents will come back to bite the Democrats in both 2010 and 2012. Even while some pundits say the GOP will end up looking obstructionist, Republicans are quick to point out that the bulk of the bill - the exchange, which will help small businesses and the 47 million people who are uninsured buy affordable insurance, along with subsidies to help those who can't afford it and new regulations of insurers' practices - wouldn't go into effect until 2013 (this is partly because...