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...moment. In a week when David Zucker’s new movie “Scary Movie 4,” retreads horror movies that you’ve already forgotten in a manner that will get old five minutes after you leave the theater, go for his classic version of the same material...
...Dorotheenstrasse, tel: (49-30) 20450070 Günter Windhorst doesn't have it easy: his bar is located next to the U.S. embassy, and post-9/11 security nearly blocked the entrance. But it's worth crossing the security line to sample the bar's downtown elegance and classic cocktails. Riva Arch 142 Dircksenstrasse, riva-berlin.de An oval bar is the central feature of the room, and black leather couches line the walls below the brightly colored arched ceiling. Throw in the steady beat of minimal techno and house and a mixed-age crowd, and you've got one of central...
...prices eventually, not everyone believes that moment has come yet. There are the calculations that economists do, and then there are "animal spirits"?the greed and euphoria that feeds into and prolongs stock booms long after the rationalists conclude they should end. India, some analysts believe, is now a classic case of a market where sentiment may be trumping economics, given that the market there has already tripled in the past three years. "All India's ducks are in a row right now," says Amit Tandon, managing director of Fitch Ratings India in Bombay. "There is a perceptible change...
...best thing about this operetta is that it musically goes a step beyond the rest of the “Savoy Operas,” as the classic-era G&S operas were called. While the story is appropriately wacky and amusing, one appreciates when characters frequently stop to wax poetic or to throw off an endless stream of words in beautiful song...
Against precariousness? The vibrancy of a society can almost be measured by its precariousness. Free markets correlate not just with prosperity and wealth but also with dynamism. The classic example is China today, an economic and social Wild West with entire classes, regions, families and individuals rising and falling in ways that must terrify today's young demonstrators in Paris. In France not a single enterprise founded in the past 40 years has managed to break into the ranks of the nation's 25 biggest companies...