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...suspicion of state power can trump disillusionment with free markets ... The more that Democrats flail in the present, the more likely it becomes that the Great Recession will be remembered as the time when liberalism let the future slip away." --11/29/09...
...literature that dates back to the Old Testament and up to Bruce Jay Friedman's 1962 novel Stern, about a Jew who moves to the suburbs and endures a plague of abuse from neighbors and nature. The men at the center of Philip Roth's novels may rage and flail, but Larry doesn't dish out insults, he takes them. When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies, just suck it up and hope you don't explode. That's Larry's method of coping. In Stuhlberg's precise embodiment, Larry accepts...
...problem as well. Captain Joe Mendez from the South Florida High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA), says operators flush with cash are attracted to the abundance of cheap homes in Florida, particularly in Miami-Dade, which leads the state in foreclosures. While Florida's legitimate economy continues to flail, the HIDTA captain says indoor marijuana is thriving even though law enforcement is arresting more people every year. Says Mendez: "If the economic downturn remains as it is, I don't see any light at the end of the tunnel...
...19th century, Argentina was one of the world's richest countries; poor European emigrants found themselves choosing between New York City and Buenos Aires. Somewhere along the way, though, things took a turn. Much has been written about why some economies thrive while others flail. But compared with works like Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel, Beattie's take is markedly less deterministic. Corruption may have killed Africa, he notes, but it worked rather well in South Korea, where bribery attained taxlike precision. Beattie, an editor at the Financial Times, develops a few themes: free trade is good. Infrastructure...
...live appearances, Torturing Nurse is aural mayhem - instruments are trashed, vocals are screamed, microphones and mixing boards are dismembered and feedback allowed to build to almost unbearable levels, while Cao and the others don masks, flail around and occasionally assault each other. "I just want our live shows to be weird and something extremely different," Cao says. They certainly are that. Even among the avant-garde, Torturing Nurse retain the power to shock...