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...first trigger for the elation was a comment by one of the least respected executives in the recent history of Wall St. Vikram Pandit, who many think ran Citigroup (C) into the ground. He said recently that the bank had been profitable for the first two months of the year. If this week marks the bottom of the stock market and the beginning of the end of the recession, his words will join "Remember The Alamo" and "The British Are Coming" in the history books. (See the 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...possible the lyric sheet was simplified in the translation from Bambara and French; it's also possible they're just casual lyricists.) The exception, linguistically, is "I Follow You," sung by Amadou to his wife in tender, halting English: "Under the sun, baby, I follow you/ Under the ground, baby, I follow you." As Amadou told a British music magazine, "We would like English-speaking people to understand us. It's not a large vocabulary, but our heart...
...affecting you. We have been doing this for the past 10 months, beginning with our cover stories "Surviving the Lean Economy" and "Job #1: The Economy" during the presidential campaign. And we've been doing it ever since, not with opinion and conjecture but with reporting on the ground and a concern for how all this is affecting real people's lives. We did that last week with "So You Think You're Insured?" and the week before that with our special economic package "Holding On for Dear Life." And we've been defining this economic crisis since our signature...
...collapsed into gore-fests like those featured on “CSI.” Violence has become the stuff of the banal, and yet retains its mystic and exotic appeal. Valentin Groebner, one of Germany’s up-and-coming historians, takes a look at this phenomenon, grounding it centuries ago in the visual culture of the Middle Ages. Groebner’s claim provides the basis for “Defaced,” where he attempts to link today’s media-led fascination with horror and graphic depictions of mutilated bodies to the torture...
...Still, even some Iraqis who agreed with such comments viewed the sentence as unduly harsh. But it could have been a lot worse: the correspondent, who has been in custody since he was wrestled to the ground by security men seconds after throwing his shoes, faced up to 15 years in jail. His 25-person-strong defense team has said it will appeal the verdict...