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...writer, he has created an anti-utopian gulag of ostensibly placid communities - island resorts, luxury apartment towers, high-tech research parks - where civility deteriorates and darkness rises. In Kingdom Come, his latest and perhaps most unsettling work yet, Ballard exposes a particularly nasty cesspool of social pathology: the shopping mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire of the Sun, a surprisingly sunny best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale...
Like many of his new classmates at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, freshman Cory Hipps spent the summer working. But instead of stocking jeans at the mall or pulling sodas at the Dairy Queen, Hipps, 18, clocked 9-to-5 days at the accounting firm Deloitte, testing software designed to help customers manage debt. He earned wages, kudos from his bosses and the promise of internships at the firm throughout his college years. "Anyone my age can say they want to do something with their career," he says, "but I already...
...conflict in Thailand's south is primarily a political problem requiring a political solution. But Thaksin is preoccupied with his own survival?he risks facing crowds of hostile protesters if he visits any Bangkok shopping mall, let alone the alienated south. He has so little credibility in the capital that after an apparent car-bomb plot against him was revealed on Aug. 24, 49% of those interviewed for a Bangkok University survey believed the plot was a hoax...
CARACAS In demand at the Centro mall Sambil, the original 3-zip Guess? jean ($108) contains 2% spandex for a flattering...
...store service), J. Crew, Old Navy, H&M, Express, and Victoria’s Secret, making the Galleria a one-stop shop for fashion on a budget. You and your roommates can get to it by taking the 69 (yes, really) bus from Johnston Gate to Lechmere. The mall is across the street from the station...