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...minimum gesture for the recipients of excessively large banking bonuses - which are totally disproportionate and cause resentment and disgust in the vast majority of people - to give three-quarters of their bonuses for the past three years to Haiti or to victims of other natural disasters? That might go some way to restoring bankers' disgraceful image. C. Kizlink Monaco...
...make a real break with the past, the Greek state must also go global, say business executives and business analysts. Athens needs to lure foreign investors aggressively, which means offering everything from tax breaks to helping investors navigate the bureaucracy associated with setting up shop. "We must transform Greece into a welcome place to do business," says Eurobank's deputy CEO Nikolaos Karamouzis. The potential for future investment - in tourism and renewable energy in particular - is promising. Wind-energy generation alone is expected to increase fivefold in the next decade. "The new Greek government seems determined to push the 'green...
...Patti Smith at her most indispensable, go to YouTube and watch her perform "Horses/Hey Joe," a medley that peaks with the immortal directive "Go, Rimbaud! Do the Watusi!" Rimbaud? Watusi? Yes! Anybody who sees the link between the most delirious of French poets and the dumbest of '60s dance crazes is onto something...
...contentment. "We hadn't much money but we were happy," she writes. (Reader, beware--Smith has a weakness for mannered prose.) But poverty is easier to bear when you see everything through the lens of art, when a blue rayon dress is your "East of Eden outfit" and you go to your job in a bookstore dressed all in black like Anna Karina in a Godard movie...
...perspective--Kate Bush wrote "This Woman's Work"--but I've never thought what I would want to say for a woman. But it's one of those things. It's like childbirth. A man will never know. We'll never understand what it takes for a woman to go through all that they go through. I can't say that I know what I would need to say for a woman, but I know that I've learned from women, and I've learned what not to say: "Baby, you look good in them jeans. They don't make...