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...three speakers discussed the often chaotic process of moving toward a “market-based system” for electricity production and transmission since Congress passed the Energy Policy Act in 1992, which aimed to end the monopoly of local electricity utilities and bring more competition to the electrical industry...
...someone interested in quietly leading a terrorist's life, the rainy Indonesian hamlet of Cijeruk is a nice place to settle down. Nestled among lush, green paddies and swaying banana trees, an hour's drive outside the chaotic capital city of Jakarta, Cijeruk consists of a single two-lane road lined by a row of well-kept cottages. It's a good spot to hide from the authorities, if you have reason to be on the run--which may be how Omar al-Faruq, a 31-year-old drifter from Kuwait, ended up living there, in a concrete house that...
...mind of a prepubescent boy can be a confused and chaotic place. Caught between childhood and adolescence, he's flooded by new impulses, teased by an itch he can't quite scratch. So wordless lust is confined in wordless thoughts that resound in his tormented head. The 12-year-old narrator of Ed Lin's edgy debut novel Waylaid is the only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit...
...through the "lowly" comic book only adds to his challenge.) . But pretentiousness only applies to art that overreaches and fails. McKean, with remarkable talent and nerve, has succeeded in making a comic like no other. "Cages" has all the qualities of a real universe -- sprawling yet contained, chaotic yet organized, mysterious yet discernable, comedic yet serious. Assuming you have a re-enforced bookshelf, $50 doesn't seem too much to ask for both a universe and a work...
...Jerry Lee did as he was bid that night; he went on before Chuck Berry. He had the crowd screaming and rushing the stage, and when it seemed that the screams had grown loudest and the rushing most chaotic, he stood, kicked the piano stool away with violence, and broke into 'Great Balls of Fire.' As the screaming chaos grew suddenly and sublimely greater, he drew from his jacket a Coke bottle full of gasoline, and he doused the piano with one hand as the other hand banged out the song; and he struck a wooden match...