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...disintegration from robust artistic health to narrative incoherence, from hitmaker to box-office loser, has an almost tragic trajectory. It's a saga worthy of being told by the young M. Night Shyamalan. Perhaps, with his next film, he'll have a surprise twist of cinematic brilliance that will explain and atone for the creepy stuff that's been happening...
...Similarly, Song says, using an offbeat typeface to obscure a dish's description may signal hidden value to an unsuspecting diner on unfamiliar ground. That may explain the implicit logic employed by restaurants offering exorbitant entrees described with elaborately scripted fonts in microscopic print...
...down, Americans are at least thinking - openly - about what went wrong, and why, and what can be learned from it. The latest issue of Foreign Affairs has a long article by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the national interest. If not always convincing, it is an effort to explain why specific ways of looking at the world keep cropping up among American policymakers, decade after decade. Rice joins - to name but a handful of luminaries - Robert Kagan, Michael Mandelbaum, Anne-Marie Slaughter and Fareed Zakaria, all of whom have recently written thoughtful, widely read books on American foreign policy...
...does La Niña explain another odd incident that came about at 3:52 p.m. Sunday? At that moment, the National Weather Service issued a seiche warning for Lake Michigan, near Chicago: "Public reports of a drop in Lake Michigan water level at Chicago by 2 feet in the last hour indicates that a seiche is affecting the water levels of Lake Michigan." Many people had never even heard of a seiche, so no one paid attention-until the Chicago Tribune splashed headlines about it the next day. A seiche (pronounced saysh) occurs when an approaching thunderstorm pushes water...
...been, the falloff in sales has been cushioned by foreign buyers in such places as New York City and Florida. Anne Marie Moriarty, a vice president of Corcoran realtors, says residential real estate sales to foreigners have doubled in the past 15 months. The uptick in foreign interest helps explain why New York City real estate prices are up 11% over last year in an otherwise tanking marketplace. "It's bucking the trend," says Moriarty of the Manhattan market. Foreigners "see it as a long-term investment. Part of it for them is owning a piece of New York...