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...short-term solutions to their problems, they all go to a sex cabaret called Shortbus. (Explanation of the title: back in grammar school the "normal" kids got to ride the regular-length schoolbus, while "the gifted and challenged" rode the short bus.) Among the denizens are a courtly older gent, who bears a passing resemblance to a former bachelor mayor of New York, and the cabaret's host, real-life male diva Justin Bond (aka Kiki of the Broadway duo Kiki & Herb). "It's just like the '60s," he says of the entanglement of bodies in the orgy room, "only...
...currency, and the first European country to adopt a flat tax system, now widely copied in the rest of Eastern Europe. It has also become one of the most technologically advanced places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking your car, buy bus tickets and check your children's school grades. More than 80% of taxpayers file their declarations online, wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous - and free - and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which was acquired last year by eBay for $2.6 billion. That amount...
...says Craig Rawlings, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tallinn. He recounts a tale of two foreign-owned machinery factories, now in a mad fight for each other's engineers. And it's not just foreigners who are feeling the pinch. Estonian doctors, nurses, construction workers and bus drivers are all being lured to higher-paid jobs abroad, leaving some gaping holes at home. Still, for 15 years, Estonia has shown that it can improvise and adapt. "We're a very small country and the No. 1 question is always: Do we have the resources?" says Skype...
...sitting around smoking?” Only a handful of the 12 films have any discernible “plot,” but Lockhart’s films transcend this particular convention. The plots tend to be minimal—for example: “Boy waits for bus. Boy gets on bus,” or “Children begin lower down on the hill. Children finish further up on the hill.”The stillness of the films can be eerie at times, but more often evokes a meditative sensibility. Further, Lockhart?...
...It’s just hard for me—as it would be for any intelligent person—to bid goodbye to the sight of 11-year-olds wearing t-shirts with adorable phrases like “Sexy Bitch” printed on them, or to bus drivers wearing wrap-around Armani sunglasses. Therefore, my return has been fraught with a pain not felt by most Harvardians who study abroad over the summer. Many of them spend time in a foreign land by building automated sewage systems out of discarded lead pipes, living in burlap huts...