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...page ads in US magazines boasting about their university graduates and gains in GDP. "Your competitors are in your backyard now in a way they never were before," says Alec Hansen, president of the Economic Competitiveness Group, an outfit that advises governments, companies and development organizations. "The world has gotten a lot scarier...
Skin-tight black leather. Partially-bared breasts. Exposed butt cheeks. Fishnet stockings. Stiletto pumps. Pole dancing. Have I gotten your attention? Or, rather, did Britney Spears get your attention with her recent video “Gimme More?” Even if she did, it’s likely she lost it after the first chorus of her mind-numbing drivel. The antidote: the recently-released video “Teddy Picker” by British indie rockers the Arctic Monkeys. In this video, from their second album “Favourite Worst Nightmare,” the band...
...Europe, regretted that the real message of transcendental meditation, which he calls an "ancient eternal knowledge verified by Western science," was being lost in the furor. "Mankind was not made to suffer," he said. "We are all one. Bliss is our nature ... But somehow tonight this beautiful gift has gotten perverted. Let's march boldly toward a bright and shining future!" The strangeness of the whole affair was not lost on film students in the audience, one of whom caught it on film . At the very least, the evening was suitably Lynchian: disturbing but good theater nonetheless...
...players in Boston’s underground hip-hop scene for eight years, was looking for a new DJ. They picked up Shiftee, but didn’t know just what they’d gotten until one of their first shows together at The Muddy River Smokehouse in Portsmouth, N.H. Zornow’s performance set other DJs’ tongues wagging...
...odyssey with Christianity began last summer at Wal-Mart, when I saw a teen New Testament amongst the romance novels and bargain blenders. Since I’m Jewish, I’d never gotten to read the Holy Bible and was quite curious. Sadly, it lacked a barcode; the cashier wasn’t able to sell it to me despite her declaration that not owning it “was a shame, because that’s one good book to have.” I took her words to heart and began my quest to understand...