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...capitalist governments have been socialist enough to use public money to pay for private debts, perhaps they might also be socialist enough to address the issue of fairness in the distribution of wealth. It's time we stopped the robber barons getting too rich. Tony Attanasio, MANDELLO DEL LARIO, ITALY
...first hybrid vehicles by the end of December, even though it already has orders for 3,000 Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen hybrids. It's not clear at this point whether Chrysler will be able to fill the orders for the hybrids before the assembly plant in Newark, Del., where they are built shuts permanently, a Chrysler spokeswoman said. Roughly 5,000 salaried employees at GM also are expected to leave the company payroll by week's end as part of a series of cutbacks announced in July...
...have the power to disorient, confuse, shock, and dazzle in a way that is totally isolated from the medium of popular cinema. Contemporary filmmakers whose work may be called “innovative” or “experimental” in passing (Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Guillermo del Toro) approach their work from the baseline that the audience must first be entertained, but never aspire to the same kind of radical evaluation of the craft that made Godard’s final peak-period film, 1967’s “Week End,” such...
...aimed at the poor, warned John M. Sheffield II ’09, during a presentation on police brutality in South America yesterday evening. The discussion focused on the two summers Sheffield spent in Buenos Aires, working with the Argentinean human rights group La Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre, as well as researching his thesis there. Sheffield, who is an undergraduate associate and research fellow at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, emphasized how “political polarization” between the rich and the poor in Buenos Aires also facilitated police repression...
...comes at prices that are roughly 40% higher than those in Bali. And for potential buyers who are concerned about cultural authenticity, Phuket underwhelms. Much of the island's vacation-property development follows an anodyne architectural style that could just as easily be in southern California or the Costa del Sol. Phuket may be in Thailand, but large swaths of it don't feel very Thai...