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...iconography and the self-consciousness and class guilt of journalists, especially male ones. (What do we, with our soft, girlie hands, know about real life?) Palin, in this picture, is real because she eats moose. Obama is not real, because he eats arugula. Yet arugula is served at strip-mall chains like the Olive Garden and Panera. Rachael Ray--not exactly a food snob's idol--makes pasta and beef tenderloin with it. I have looked in vain for her mooseburger recipe. Why are you so out of touch with yourself, America...
...emblem of our own assumptions.” The view of nature as having infinite resources and society as being destined to achieve ultimate prosperity by tapping those resources is the same utopian aspiration, he argues, that “the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Mall of America, and the Williams-Sonoma catalog partake of.” But in an era where criticisms of Chicago Boy free-market capitalism are as trendy as Katy Perry songs, Stoll’s book offers little in the way of originality or groundbreaking argumentation.Most annoyingly, Stoll seems to conflate...
...Kamoshida isn't the only one caught by surprise as Japan deals with the cascading effects of the crisis. The mall, Sakura City, opened in late 2006 to much fanfare, and initially housed 60 stores, including the area's only supermarket. Its closure has cost about 400 people their jobs, and effects are rippling out into the community, says Tadayasu Yamamoto, chairman of the Hitachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Shop owners of the nearby shopping arcades are in trouble and so are the consumers," Yamamoto says. "We cannot allow the city's ray of light to be extinguished...
...there's nothing he can do to keep the lights on. The mall's operators had been paying day-to-day expenses with financing obtained through a subsidiary of Lehman Brothers, the now defunct American investment bank. After Lehman's dramatic collapse in mid-September, the mall lost its funding source, couldn't pay operating expenses and was forced to liquidate. Tenants must be out within days. They have been told they will not be getting their deposits back. Kamoshida can't get over the feeling of being utterly blindsided. "I had no idea that Lehman Brothers had anything...