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...Little Miss Sunshine, come to think of it. Yes, the youngest member of a perfectly dim and dysafunctional American family is determined to compete in one of those horrific sub-teen beauty pageants. That, however, is merely a pretext to cram them into a decrepit VW bus and set them on the road to nowhere. The central joke is that their behavior is perfectly sublimated and perfectly committed to the intricate desperations by which they hope to gain fame, riches or, in the case of a recently defrocked Proust scholar, an alternative to suicide. All in all I thought...
...oboe in silent-movie orchestras in New Zealand, had been a church organist since his schooldays, when he took up the organ to get out of football. As a hobby, "a plaything that I thought would keep me busy into my retirement," he started restoring the Majestic's decrepit organ, gathering pipes and electrical switches from old theaters and churches as far away as Fiji...
...Indian companies have improved, and decrepit infrastructure adds about 2% to 5% onto the costs of doing business in India compared to China, estimates Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Much of India's clothing and textile industry, for example, remains a patchwork of smaller producers that can't match the scale of Chinese companies. A McKinsey study found that Indian apparel makers are half as productive as Chinese firms due to poor management and a lack of training and technology. McKinsey figures that a man's shirt costs about 23% more to produce in India than it does in China...
...street know it. When Harvard moves into Allston, the Barry’s Corner community, as it now exists, will cease to exist. This is not to say, as Harvard widely touts, that the physical landscape will not change for the better. Trees will be planted, roads repaved, decrepit buildings demolished, and new buildings erected. But the neighborhood’s denizens will not be the same...
...only be appreciated from the sky. Recently, Yu's ideas have gained new traction in high places. Environmental sustainability, green growth and resource conservation were major themes of last month's meeting of the National People's Congress. And Yu has been approved to help Shanghai rehabilitate a decrepit industrial stretch of its main river for its 2010 World Expo and to create a corridor of parkland along 1,700 m of the Grand Canal...