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Today, Guy Fawkes Day - also known as Bonfire Night - is marked across the United Kingdom by celebrations. To foot the bill for the traditional fireworks, children roam the streets in the days leading up to the event, brandishing their effigies - known as "Guys" - and ask passers-by for a "penny for the guy." (The phrase famously serves as the second epigraph to T.S. Eliot's 1927 meditation on despair, "The Hollow Men.") Families gather for food and festivities that might seem incongruous with the event's bloody origins - although perhaps not as incongruous as lighting fireworks and bonfires to celebrate...
...footage of the past 20 months of the campaign as The Today Show ticker streams news updates across the street. Tourists mill about in campaign buttons and patriotic outfits, posing for photos with the Republican donkey and Democratic elephant as if they were Disney World characters at the Magic Kingdom. Both animals seem to be equally popular, although based on the number of campaign pins, the crowd leans heavily toward Obama. Several teenagers even took photos lying down on the bright blue carpet that NBC rolled out for the occasion, the very same spot where the city's most famous...
Artist Fiona Tan thinks of herself as an “image-maker.” In “Kingdom of Shadows,” Tan’s 2001 short film presented last Sunday night at the Carpenter Center, she explores how the proliferation of images in the modern world—namely through photographs—changes our perception of them. Interviews with collectors and artists guide an exploration of our relationship with photographs—a relationship that, to Tan, “can never be settled”. The screening followed up on a lecture?...
...calling for a third. "You have no idea what can happen," says veteran Honolulu journalist Jerry Burris, who covered the hot and humid ConCon in the summer of 1978 that convened in downtown Honolulu's old federal building, directly across from Iolani Palace, the seat of the former Kingdom of Hawaii...
...Times published an influential story revealing an ongoing investigation into hedge funds trying to destabilize the country. Last month, the liquidity freeze made it impossible for Glitnir to roll over its short-term debt, as the krona suddenly depreciated and interest rates soared. Fear rapidly spread to the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe, where residents had deposited billions in the other two Icelandic banks attracted by their high interest rates. Amidst the banking run that immediately followed, the British government transferred authority over an Icelandic subsidiary in the UK, and then sold it to the Dutch firm...