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...should be included on every space capsule that’s sent out into the heavens to show creatures on other planets who and what human beings are and what makes them wonderful and odd.When I started this book I wanted to write a screwball comedy based on the classic love triangle. At the beginning I knew only a few things—the triangle would consist of a man, a woman, and a ghost. But as is usually the case with things I write, the story chose the direction it wanted to go in and I just followed...
...financial crisis, its members have begun to discuss how the old wisdom could mediate the new mess. The question these days, he says, is not whether Jews can be induced to be more ethical than the market, but whether the market can be made more ethical. "I think classic rabbinic tradition is certainly pro-regulatory," he says. Meanwhile, Yeshiva's Levine calls in his journal article for what he describes as "an incentive structure in the workplace that would dissuade people from wrongdoing." He gets quite specific, imagining a "carrot and stick" arrangement. One stick would be an expansion...
...into a wispy line of smoke. Such metamorphoses are startling in the black and white films; they highlight the pervasiveness of digital change. Perhaps the most arresting installation is “Lossless #3,” a highly pixilated and compressed version of John Ford’s classic Western “The Searchers.” The film contains neither plot nor dialogue, and the soundtrack mostly consists of eerie pitches that echo throughout the entire gallery. When a recognizable noise breaks through—whether it be a gunshot or a trumpet announcing the beginning...
...Thom Yorke of Radiohead begs to be taken away with him. And I don’t know about you, but I’m usually convinced by whatever Thom says. But while “Reckoner” may pan out to be another Radiohead classic, the accompanying video leaves something to be desired. The melancholic video begins in black and white with something that looks very much like the hair on my legs in my worst nightmare and ensures that I’ll never forget to shave them again. In fact, this is supposed to represent...
...Obama is. The difference between them was made clear in the second question of the debate - a fellow named Oliver Clark wanted to know how the Wall Street bailout would help his friends who were in trouble. McCain's answer was all over the place and obscure in a classic Washington way; he detoured into blaming Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and pointing his finger at Obama and "his cronies" for supporting those two incomprehensible institutions. Obama, by contrast, brought the bailout home in simple language: "Well, Oliver, first, let me tell you what's in the rescue package...