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...part-time profession in the 21st century) Levy is in full finger-wagging mode in this latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. à la Tocqueville and painted a portrait of a nation both majestic and mad--there's an intellectual ranginess to Dark Times that makes it difficult to pin down. The object of Levy's ire is the left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans call liberalism are giving birth to." In its better...
...critics, the plan smacks of oil-fueled excess - of a piece with the mad dash across the Arabian peninsula, to build the tallest, biggest glitziest structures money can buy. Their coffers bulging with surpluses, many Persian Gulf states are turning their desert into one giant construction site. There's the City of Silk project in Kuwait, Dubailand in Dubai, and any number of ports, airports, universities and giant residential and industrial complexes coming up in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and elsewhere. KAEC "is not a vanity project, but there is definitely a statement being made," says a Riyadh businessman...
...voted against it sang this refrain: The voters made us do it. Indeed, before Monday's vote, angry constituents overwhelmingly panned the plan championed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. The volume of e-mail crashed the House's website. After Wall Street tumbled 778 points, voters are still mad - and now even more confused. Representative Steve LaTourette, a Republican from Ohio, tells it this way: until Monday, the calls and e-mails to his office were 200-to-1 opposed to the bailout. But after the huge market drop, only about half the people calling his office congratulated...
...furious argument over whether shorts hastened the demise of Lehman and AIG, cutting the off their oxygen when it was desperately needed. And some have laid the blame at the feet of SEC commissioner Cox. "Chris Cox is responsible for the largest destruction of wealth in U.S. history," hissed Mad Money maestro Jim Cramer on his CNBC show on Tuesday. "Because of Cox, the shorts won." (Republican nominee John McCain called Thursday for Cox to be fired - the same Cox some conservatives touted as a possible running mate earlier this year. President Bush said he fully supports his appointee...
Wright taught himself how to play piano (and several other instruments) as a jazz-mad child growing up in London, and brought a sense of improvisation to the R&B group he formed with school friends Roger Waters and Nick Mason. When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism. After Barrett left the group because of mental instability and was replaced by Gilmour, the cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release...