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...understand how to operate in a free political environment. Meanwhile, activists in places like Ethiopia and Namibia have condemned Chinese investment practices, including poor wages and importation of Chinese laborers. In one of the worst incidents, Zambia exploded in protest after an accident at a Chinese-owned copper mine there in 2005 killed over 50 Zambians...
...live action, the text’s slapstick aspects tend to fall flat. In addition, the pathetic characters Handey utilizes in his pieces are given no human side, and their transparecy and one-sidedness can make the jokes just a little too cruel. And yet Handey is able to mine everything for humor—even the prospect of manslaughter. When the narrator talks about his issues with running over hitchhikers, he asks, “Have you ever been driving and hit a strange bump and wondered, What was that? That was a hitchhiker.” Unlike...
...Doing Fine,” when Swaby begs an ex-lover, “Please don’t tell me you love me / Leave me / Don’t fuck with my mind / Try to understand like you’re a good friend of mine / ’Cause I’m doing fine.” In a contemporary music scene filled with girls like “Colleen,” it’s nice to hear a band bringing heartbreak and the blues to a new generation. Another stand-out track...
...brother [Jeremy] is a long-time best friend of mine, going back to when I was probably 21, 22. I spoke to [Ed] at one of Jeremy's garden parties in the summer of 1998, and I discussed my views on where I thought Internet betting would go. I'd spoken to a number of people, and I'd said, "I want to do this, one day I'm going to do this." I'm not sure whether I really believed it or not. Ed seemed interested, but I didn't speak to him again on the subject for quite...
Climate leadership will come not from this President but from the next. So how will voters be able to tell which candidate is going to take real action? If there's a canary in this coal mine, it's the policy known as cap and trade, an idea Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp calls a "silver bullet." Where do the candidates really stand on cap and trade--and how does it work, anyway...