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...like Pet Sounds Records down the road, Skanegatan 53, tel: (46-8) 702 97 98; www.petsounds.se/web/, it was named after the classic 1966 Beach Boys album. Musicians from far and wide flock to the store, but the most prolific customer? That'd be filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. Says Stefan Jacobson, 53, who owns both places, "The last time he was here he picked up a 1950s country album by Wanda Jackson - recorded in German." SoFo, so good...
Springsteen's known charitable contributions, substantial though they are, amount to only a small fraction of his income. What he does with the rest is a mystery to almost everyone except the staff of Breslauer, Jacobson and Rutman, the Los Angeles accounting firm that discreetly handles many of Springsteen's business affairs. At the firm's elegant quarters on Wilshire Boulevard, a TIME reporter was warned that he would be "thrown out of the office" if he persisted with questions about the Boss's finances...
...economic memory. The Great Depression had been blamed largely on free markets, underlining the need for draconian government supervision of the economy. Yet Friedman argued that free markets had not caused the Great Depression. Rather, in A Monetary History of the United States, written with the great economist Anna Jacobson Schwartz, Friedman said it was horrifying incompetence by the government, specifically the Federal Reserve, that had caused and prolonged the Depression. He showed in minute detail how failures of monetary policy--occasionally motivated by the anti-Semitism of some Fed governors--had created catastrophe from what could have been...
...tone of the original book - for better or worse. For the better it avoids messy editorializing. For the worse it loses the engagement of telling a single story. It begins with what journalists call a "tick-tock," a minute-by-minute accounting of the hijacking of the planes. Cleverly, Jacobson and Colon use the graphic abilities of the form to show each plane's story in four parallel timelines running across the pages. The appalling lack of communication can thus be seen on a single page as United 93, delayed on the ground by nearly 45 minutes, only receives warning...
...What an absolutely stunning piece of journalism. Ghosh's "Baghdad Diary" should be required reading for all political and military analysts and decision makers who think they know how to achieve peace in the world. Alvin Jacobson Cambridge, Massachusetts...