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...exception, though, is Uncle Sam. Even before the financial crisis forced the government's hand, the U.S. had again become addicted to deficit spending - relying on the kindness of strangers (in this case, mainly Chinese and Japanese central bankers) to finance its spendthrift ways. In September the Congressional Budget Office's baseline deficit forecast for 2008 was $407 billion. Now, with the Treasury's massive intervention in support of banks and financial markets ($700 billion at a minimum) and with a second economic-stimulus package a political certainty, the government deficit could soar next year to $1 trillion...
...Cotterill spent his first month in Laos in a hospital, where he quickly befriended the medical staff. He liked them so much, in fact, that after he recuperated, he took an apartment above the place. While living there, he got a first-hand look at the shocking dilapidation of the country's medical infrastructure. Years later, the experience would provide the inspiration for a series of charmingly offbeat mystery novels set in Laos and featuring a most unlikely detective: Dr. Siri Paiboun, the country's chief - and only - coroner...
...become part of what can be available and seen again. I was proud when I made it and now I’m far enough away from it to be proud of it again. THC: How is your work influenced by other art forms? AS: On one hand it’s possible to say that I’m influenced by everything from Rice Krispies package backs to Beckett. Like most artists, anything—all the different ways of making a thought or feeling manifest that you can re-translate for oneself. There’s a certain...
...ambition to join the European Union, a rebound and triumph of secularism, or the rise of an increasingly Islamic agenda could have ramifications extending across Europe and even back home to the United States, where the political discourse revolves around anti-Islamic name-calling. With our election at hand, Americans should look to Turkey. We need to realize that when these campaigns end, we must move beyond politics of insinuation and inertia. In the rest of the world, the stakes are much higher. Alexander R. Konrad ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history and archaeology joint...
...Georges Delerue, builds and sweeps with an epic romanticism that self-consciously apes the conventions of contemporary dramatic film. The cinematography, overseen by perennial Godard collaborator Raoul Coutard, had rarely looked more breathtaking—not only is the camera finally still (his earlier films were often shot on hand-held cameras), but the angles are expertly measured to give a messy apartment and a Mediterranean horizon the same sense of space. Vistas overflow with color. “Contempt” is a visual feast, and only one from Godard’s formidable filmography.As one of the pioneers...