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...term that would ever be used over here. I know that I personally do not truly understand the issues involved in this very complicated international situation. However, I don?t think anyone in the United States really understands this issue very well either. And when I say anyone I mean everyone from the CIA to the president to the news media. That really makes me care a lot more about international politics and care a lot more about how the US is projecting its image and its might around the globe...
...Real estate is the only major consumer market in which how much you'll pay someone depends on your belief about how much someone else will pay you. In this market, prices go up when people believe they will continue to go up. To restore confidence would mean restoring belief in the greater fool. That shouldn't be hard. It's built into human nature. This is why another term for a Ponzi or pyramid scheme is a confidence trick...
Which is still no mean feat, and One Fifth Avenue (Hyperion; 433 pages) is no mean book, except in the other sense of mean. So far, 2008 is looking like a career year for Bushnell, what with the success of the Sex and the City movie and the success--or, at any rate, the renewal--of her NBC series Lipstick Jungle. She also just announced a deal to write young-adult novels about the teen years of Carrie Bradshaw. One Fifth Avenue should round all that out nicely. It's certainly a page turner of practically Germanic efficiency...
...similar vein: “Our moral advantage, still vast and obvious, is not a liability, and we should strengthen and expand it. Like our dependence on reason, it is a strategic strength.” But what does any of that mean?America has yet to comprehend the power that is Islamism, distinct from Islam. In a battle that is fought as much in the mind as on the ground or in the air, terminology is important, and Islamophobe is still hurled as an insult against those who speak out against the ideology that is related to the religion...
...polychrome collage fit for a museum exhibit of ephemera. Like butterflies mounted behind glass, they’ve been taken out of their natural habitat, removed from the context of the streetlamps and mailboxes where they meant what they said, into a new habitat and context, where they mean something else. On these walls, they symbolize an intrinsic bond between the post-bohemian artistic anarchy of graffiti culture and the mercurial lunatic fringe that underground music has long occupied.The basement room that comprises Twisted Village is dusty and poorly lit, but an anxious potential crackles through the atmosphere; it?...