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...Accessible to even those who couldn't care less about art, Seven Days is light-hearted but sociologically acute, allowing us to both laugh at and empathize with those for whom "contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion." As Thornton writes, "For many art world insiders...concept-driven art is a kind of existential channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence...
...denial. The WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index, which tracks the stock prices of clean-tech companies, is down about 80% since the beginning of September. (By contrast, the S&P Index lost about 25% of its value over the same time period.) The cost of oil, which has driven much of the investment in alternative energy in recent years, has halved since the summer. And new green industries, like wind farms and solar-panel factories, are no less affected by the credit crunch than any other business...
...good news is that Florida's current governor, Republican Charlie Crist, is driven more by common sense than by ideology. After taking office last year, he scrapped the antiquated punch-card ballots (e.g., the butterfly ballot) as well as the flawed touch-screen voting machines favored by his conservative predecessor, Jeb Bush (the President's brother, who was governor from 1999 to 2007). A big reason: in a 2006 congressional race in Sarasota County, an incredible 15% of ballots cast on touch-screen machines registered no choice at all - in a race decided by a razor-thin margin...
...Republican media consultant Alex Castellanos said he feels that Obama’s cabinet would instead reflect the “Barack Obama who picked Joe Biden”—not the Barack Obama who electrified rallying crowds by calling for change driven by “ordinary people who do extraordinary things...
...tormented image, they were branded as “gothic,” a label Smith constantly hopes to shun. Accordingly, the band has progressively gained a much more mainstream sound. With “4:13 Dream,” The Cure has released its most pop-driven and production-heavy album yet. Complete with cowbells and warbling guitar riffs, they now uncannily resemble the many bands they have influenced, and leave us wondering who is influencing whom. “4:13 Dream” begins with the six-minute “Underneath the Stars...