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...lights blinking.” Campbell took a slightly rosier view toward the short term, saying there were some “good things” happening on that horizon, but was fearful for the long run. “Banks have become very reluctant to lend to each other, which has caused a crisis of confidence in the financial system,” he said. “The reason people are so alarmed...is we’re quite uncertain how these financial problems are going to play out and how they’ll affect the larger...
Kagan’s appointment to the advisory board will lend “a level of stature” that is needed to build the credibility of such initiatives nationwide, Halbritter said...
...jest but also, just slightly, in earnest. Adam Green can pretty much do it all, and on “Sixes & Sevens,” he proves it. His heterogeneous musical stylings are replete with tinges of influence from a broad pool of influences. But while this can lend to a broader appeal, it is not conducive to appreciating the album as a coherent whole...
Nevertheless, few subjects escape the artist's bleak skepticism. Still lifes tend to comment on the transience of things, but Goya's piles of lifeless fish and game lend unexpected violence to this theme: the white fur of a rabbit's belly exposes the wound where it was shot; the blank eyes of a lamb's skull look disconsolately at its butchered torso. Equally unsettling, a large painting of The Taking of Christ is notable less for the sorrowful figure at its center than for the jeering, crazed mob that surrounds him. The same menacing irrationality appears in disturbing later...
There's not one thing wrong with that analysis, but it doesn't exactly lend itself to snappy slogans. "That sounds a bit academic, doesn't it?," said Brown after a long explanation of how voters in Kirkcaldy or New Jersey might be convinced of the importance of reforming international institutions. And those voters who do grasp the issues might well ask why Brown places trust in the ability of large numbers of nations to reach agreement on contentious matters. For all his faith in the power of multilateralism, Brown dislikes the protracted meetings that are at the heart...