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...central conversation in the media business these days is how to preserve and provide quality journalism and in-depth reporting at a time when consumers and readers expect to get them for free on the Internet. Information may want to be free, as the Web axiom suggests, but sending correspondents to Baghdad and Kabul and everywhere in between costs money. Information may want to be free, but knowledge and reporting and insight are expensive--and valuable...
This is about as far as you can get from the world's boutique chocolate shops. I'm hiking through dense, rain-forest-like vegetation near Venezuela's central coast, shooing away mosquitoes and unsuccessfully dodging spiky palm trees. And yet, as a full-fledged chocoholic, I don't mind: I'm about to find the world's best cacao. A couple more meters down the trail, I see it. Not an especially tall tree, nothing majestic--just the bearer of the divine criollo bean...
...hiatus—at the high water mark of their popularity, exploring a creative future that looks beyond the end that “Strawberry Jam” seemed to suggest. The album’s defining force, its sonic texture, constitutes a synthesis of the central engines behind its direct predecessors—of the hypnotic groove-generator underscoring much of “Person Pitch” and the manic glee that brought “Strawberry Jam” to life. The result is nothing short of a totally fulfilling, happily singular statement in their already impressive...
...Office”) adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men,” entitled “Sin Nombre.” Krasinski directed and stars in the film, which follows an ex-gang member as he tries to escape Central America into the U.S. [CORRECTION APPENDED...
Chairman Mao's birthplace of Shaoshan is a powerful draw for anyone interested in Chinese history. Just don't expect to find too much history there. The town in China's central Hunan province has a museum, library and ersatz 1960s communal farm all dedicated to the founder of the People's Republic. His family home, cattle barn, shed, cattle pen and the family tomb have all been carefully preserved for the millions of tourists, many of them student groups on school-sanctioned "red tours," who visit Shaoshan each year. Newly built shrines - resembling the sort that might have been...