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...short attention span among American politicians when it comes to energy policy. With great fanfare, lawmakers and Presidents--both Democrats and Republicans--announce sweeping plans to end or ease American dependence on foreign oil and find other stable sources of energy. When the headlines and television sound bites fade away, however, they scrap the programs, which then are often reintroduced to an unsuspecting public as new in later years by another generation of lawmakers and Presidents. But changing anything as deep-seated as America's habits of energy use calls for consistency and follow through, so the failure of Washington...
...association of Italian hotels: "It looks like he had a problem with his wife and decided to take it out on a whole populace." At the October Fest bar on the Rimini coast, owner Roberto Drudi insists "we have no problem with Germans." He hopes the spat will soon fade, but others fear it won't. "Stefani paraded out the Northern League's old boorish way of talking," says Camillo Brezzi, professor of contemporary history at Siena University. "But it derives from a basic anti-European attitude of this government. They do not see real possibilities for collaborating with their...
...resolutely pure, others gigantic, with programs full of rock and lite-jazz artists who make aficionados wonder why the promoters still call them jazz festivals. While Europe's love for improvised music remains strong, the festival business is getting tougher as competition stiffens, artists' fees rise, and government subsidies fade. Is this all too much of a good thing? Jan Ole Otnes, the director of Europe's oldest jazz fest - the Molde Jazz Festival, in Norway - thinks it is. Just 10 years ago there were only four summer jazz festivals in the country; now there are more than a dozen...
There is also a small secular culture war about whether these books are good enough to deserve their acclaim, whether they will endure as classics or fade as fads. The charge, which given the mass popularity is typically made rather quietly, is that the stories are formulaic and conventional. The attack came first and most famously from stuffy Yale professor Harold Bloom, keeper of keys to the literary kingdom, who dismissed the first Harry Potter book as thin and derivative in a 2000 article in the Wall Street Journal and has since refused to look at any of the sequels...
...burned out,” he said. “Maybe I’ll run for the council again. Maybe I’ll run for president. Maybe I’ll apply to be on the Committee on College Life. Who knows? Maybe I’ll fade away from public life...