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...serials, where conflict often revolves around a town's monied Protestant dynasty and its less privileged newcomers. Here, we have the Cranes vs. the Lopez-Fitzgeralds. In typically unseemly soap opera fashion, it is Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald (Lindsay Korman), Hispanic and the daughter of a maid, who is the gold digger who goes after Harmony's wealthiest young scion. The African-American family in this essentially racially balanced cast ("I want to entertain everyone," says Reilly. "I want people to look at the show and identify with it") receives somewhat more enlightened treatment. They are a happy and prosperous...
...Californian like me, the Civil War always seemed like a sideshow of American history. Out west, most people were more interested in making money than fighting the war--although California managed to donate a few shipments of gold to the national treasury, it never bothered to send actual soldiers to the battlefield. Los Angeles was, and is, closer to Mexico City than to Gettysburg...
Next they'll be having an "everything must go" sale at Fort Knox. The latest gold rush has tens of thousands of miners in South Africa, Russia and other gold-producing countries facing unemployment ?- because there's a rush to sell. The Bank of England offloaded 25 tons on Tuesday, dragging the price of gold down to a 20-year low. And there's worse to come, as the International Monetary Fund proceeds with plans to sell $2.6 billion of its own gold reserves to raise money for debt relief to poor countries...
...news for the miners is that the price of gold is unlikely to rise again anytime soon. "Gold was traditionally considered a hedge against inflation," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. "Now there?s no reason to hold on to it because there?s no threat of inflation in the foreseeable future. It?s not an attractive investment because it offers no return, and the supply has grown despite falling demand, driving the price even lower." The best hope for the miners is an unforeseen catastrophe. "Right now it would take a major shock in the global economy...
...silence is absolute. As the light gathers, it is sublime and scary. When the low, fretted bars of cloud on the eastern horizon go from gray to molten gold, seconds before the sun's rim peers over the desert, it's the closest thing I have ever experienced to being in outer space. Then, as the light floods the plain, its birds begin to move: the black crows, the white cockatoos uttering their first tentative dawn screams, the rainbow lorikeets. A hawk sails over, and a mob of kangaroos hop by. A new day, the merest crumb of eternity...