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...city's mechanical golden birds, whose beauty he felt to be permanent. There is historical evidence that the Byzantines, too, revered artifice while denigrating the human flesh: self-castration was a popular means of purification, and mutilation a prevalent form of punishment - one Emperor even wore a gold nose as a result...
...With a beat that would make for some good low-rider music and vocals that warp and disintegrate under the weight of some cool effects, it’s easy to understand why Barnes has taken to performing this song live perched upon a white horse, wearing gold shorts, covered in red glitter body paint, and hanging from a noose.Yeah, their live shows are a bit extravagant, but that seems to be the point, a continuation of their over-the-top music. And after turning Roseland Ballroom into a big sexually ambiguous mosh pit just over a week...
...Osborne, born to affluence that might have been expected to inoculate him against the glint of gold, hardly seems immune himself. Five weeks before his speech to the Conservative conference, he had enjoyed the hospitality of Rothschild, an old university chum, in Corfu and attended, with Mandelson and a heady mix of the powerful and the outrageously loaded, Elisabeth Murdoch's 40th birthday dinner on the island. That's exactly the sort of high life former Prime Minister Tony Blair notoriously enjoyed during his tenure in Downing Street. Blair's vacations with well-heeled new best friends, from Italian media...
...corporations whose shares trade on the stock market today are for the most part valuable entities, and the employees of many of them will find ways to make them even more valuable in the future - something that cannot be said of gold or real estate or baseball cards, which is why stocks can be expected to outperform all of those assets over time. It stands to reason that it's better to buy into stocks at today's prices than at those that prevailed a year ago. But it's also possible that they'll be even cheaper next year...
...Leadership can foster a belief that we're all in it together. One of the most enduring images of the Asian meltdown was the sight of South Koreans lining up to donate gold wedding rings, jewelry and heirlooms to the country, helping rebuild foreign reserves. When Indonesia tried to emulate the gold-giving trick, Suharto's daughter was mocked as she went to donate her bit of gold. Rather than applauding her, Indonesians scoffed about how much her family had stolen from the country...