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...Smile From the Streets You Hold were of a mold similar to his current album, but were plagued by inconsistent writing, and a singing and playing style that could be described as unhinged. The two releases seemed to be confirmation both of his enormous talent and reported descent into severe heroin addiction...
...suddenly everybody remembered the global economy, and the Asian flu of 1997 and how it could be a whole lot worse this time around. Japan, despite a decade of slow descent, is still the world's second biggest economy, and besides that the biggest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury bills. If falling Japanese stocks drag down the Japanese banks that - amazingly - use those very stocks as collateral, they might have to start selling. All those Treasuries hit the market, U.S. interest rates hit the roof - a familiar worry, but this year? Sayonara slowdown, hello recession...
...banquet drew a diverse array of students, many of whom were not Asian. Duru, who is African-American, had never been to a Chinese New Year celebration before. "It was definitely interesting," she said. "I really liked the lions." Jessica Son '04, who is of Korean descent, did not know much about Chinese culture before attending the banquet. "It was very enlightening and fun," she remarked...
Lowery, who himself is not of Native American descent, founded Native Vision several years ago, a foundation aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of American Indian youth...
...goes on, and the audience accepts that it goes on, because Soderburgh shows us the alternative--not a happy-go-lucky bunch of youngsters smoking up and getting the munchies, but the descent of the drug czar's teenage daughter into a cocaine/heroine hell. He shows us the people who profit from selling self-destruction to a bored, insensate American upper class, but he also shows us that those people are ruthless and evil, and that someone--even the woefully weak agents of our criminal justice system--needs to stand against them...