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...this for New York in the mid-'70s: from its desperate blight emerged some pretty sharp movies. Back then, children, Hollywood was actually interested in reflecting contemporary society, and this poster child for urban dystopia provided the perfect setting. A raft of films - Serpico, Death Wish, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver - navigated that stinky Styx with the expertise of a champion white-water rafter. A lesser but still pertinent entry was The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which starred Robert Shaw as the criminal mastermind and Walter Matthau as the transit detective trying to talk...
...Vautin has overseen the University Operations Services group since the mid 1990s. He also co-founded the Harvard Green Campus Initiative and more recently played a key role in orchestrating Harvard's response to the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza, commonly known as swine...
...that independence is key. What few people understand is that a CIA station chief in every country in the world has the authority to send back to Washington and disseminate around the government what is essentially finished analysis. This happened in Iraq in mid-2003, when the CIA station in Baghdad sounded the alarm that the invasion was about to go very badly. When the White House and the Pentagon's civilian management read the Baghdad chief's conclusions, they raged, dismissing the analysis as "defeatist," even going so far as to accuse the chief of being a closet Democrat...
...Aside from Springsteen, most artists are reluctant to bad-mouth the merger. Experts speculate artists fear retaliation and recall the losing battle Pearl Jam fought against Ticketmaster in the mid-1990s. But Ticketmaster has its fans - Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan sent Congress a letter gushing support for the proposed merger. The letter was an about-face for Corgan, who in the past was critical of Ticketmaster's system and opted to use Jam Productions instead of Live Nation for some of his tours. However, Corgan is now a client of Azoff's Front Line artist-management company within Ticketmaster...
...understand the Great Consumer Retrenchment is to look at the amount of debt the typical household carries as a percentage of its disposable income. The ratio of debt to income increased from about 35% in the early 1950s to about 65% by the mid-1960s, where it more or less stayed until the late 1980s. That's when debt started its epic rise, hitting 100% of income in 2001 and going all the way up to 133% in 2007. (Read "Five Reasons for Economic Optimism...