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...Anyone who doubts that the U.S. is heading for recession is living in denial. On an annualized basis, real retail sales and industrial production are both declining. Unemployment is already at its highest level in five years. The question is whether we're headed for a short, relatively mild recession like that of 2001 - or a latter-day version of what the world went through in the 1930s: Depression...
...Saito, director general at the economic research bureau for Japan's Cabinet. "But you can't rely on exports to Asia for very long." This distress was reflected in Japan's most recent Tankan index of confidence among large manufacturers of cars and electronics, which fell to its lowest level in five years...
...which you might say, so what? These are hardly grave faults. A new biography of a Bradman contemporary, however, takes the sideshow of trying to demythologize the batting maestro to a new level. The title, Jack Fingleton: The Man Who Stood Up to Bradman (Allen & Unwin; 302 pages) hints that the book is as much about Bradman as Fingleton, a gritty opening batsman who played 18 Tests for Australia in the 1930s and later penned several of cricket's most acclaimed books, including Brightly Fades The Don, a stylish account of Bradman's final appearances for Australia...
...rides on a background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think of a doorway into extinction. Do they prefigure Rothko's suicide in 1970? We don't know. What we do know is that eventually...
...nature of global capitalism," with its power to upend the familiar landscape and turn it into a churning place of impermanence. But I doubt that even Gray would have predicted that the U.S. itself would be revealed as being unable to cope, at an economic, political or indeed intellectual level, with the consequences of modern financial capitalism...