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...were) many pasts. There is a crude but commonly held thumbnail sketch of modern Chinese history that goes something like this: Two centuries ago, European powers tried to open a hermetic society to trade; they failed until the Opium Wars forced the issue; China then entered an era of foreign domination and internal chaos, which ended with the imposition of political stability by the Communist Party in 1949; in 1978, after another round of internal unrest, China chose to modernize its economy and adopted market mechanisms to do so, with astonishing success. Cut (in the movie version of this story...
Getting movies by mail is, Netflix hopes, just a stage between the Blockbuster era of video stores and the imminent streaming of movies. You can already get 12,000 Netflix titles on your TV (if you have a Blu-ray player or spring for a $100 Netflix box). So, O.K., soon there will be no more waiting for DVDs. But it'll come at a price. You'll be what the online corporate culture wants you to be: a passive, inert receptacle for its products...
...handful of builders are now pushing play. Because for some, we have reached an era of land deals too good to pass up. Last fall, GMAC, the onetime finance arm of automaker General Motors, was in meltdown mode, begging the government for funding and trying to raise cash. One salable piece of its portfolio: 84 homesites in Hidden Springs. Jim Hunter, of Boise Hunter Homes, was there to buy. Hunter figures GMAC had already plowed about $88,000 per lot into the neighborhood by laying down streets and sewer lines. In the fire sale, he spent...
This reset moment will not last for long, let alone forever. History and the zeitgeist keep moving. It's a good bet that the 2020s will be fully roaring, the dawn of yet another thrilling, manic era of hypercapitalist easy money and overnight fortunes and conspicuous consumption...
...prominent civil rights activist and lawyer, fears that the LAPD will revert to some of its old brutal ways without his leadership. "We need two more years of this guy. Do I think that LAPD is going to go back to how they behaved in the Gates era?," says Rice, referring to former LAPD chief Daryl Gates, who was in charge during the Rodney King fiasco. "No. Are they beyond what happened in the Rampart scandal? Well, the corruption part was an aberration. What wasn't an aberration in the Rampart scandal was the abuse of force and the abuse...