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...charges are "really poppycock," says Stockman; he had been engaged in "an epic struggle for survival." Everything he told the public reflected "a realistic and balanced view of the facts as I understood them," he says, although they turned out to be wrong. He himself was buying shares throughout the period that the company was going down the toilet. He agreed with a friendly television interviewer who declared that "they" - meaning the government - "are criminalizing optimism...
...only such cheery tome on shelves these days. In Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes, trader Michael Panzner warns of an economic meltdown that will lead to Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation and possible martial law. In Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, which briefly hit business best-seller lists in 2005 and will feature next year in a documentary film by the makers of acclaimed crossword-puzzle geekfest Wordplay, financial-newsletter authors William Bonner and Addison Wiggin draw parallels between the early 21st century U.S. and the decline of Rome and imperial Spain. There...
...Kurt Russell isn't digging the proposed remake of his 1981 B epic Escape from New York. Asked by ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY if he would do a cameo in the new version, Russell snapped, "I am Snake Plissken! It's like Sean Connery always watching someone else do their version of Bond." SCORE...
...intriguingly, Melbourne conceptualist Christian Capurro's Another Misspent Portrait of Etienne de Silhouette, for which over 260 people hand erased each page of a 1986 copy of Vogue Hommes. Representing Australia, the pavilion will house New Zealand-born Daniel von Sturmer's quirky table-top kinetic sculptures; the elegantly epic ecological videos of Sydney's Susan Norrie will grace the Grand Canal's Palazzo Giustinian Lolin; and Callum Morton's demolished childhood home in Melbourne will be rebuilt three-quarter scale on a soccer field. It's not yet known who'll open the shows, but commissioner John Kaldor insists...
...body may be difficult—the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is evidence enough of how easily scientific decisions can become politicized. But it’s worth thinking about now. If a bigger, better malaria-resistant mosquito arrives next year, it would be a tragedy of epic proportions to spend years arguing about who should deliberate its release. We don’t yet have the magic malaria bullet, but we can think about human institutions in the mean time...