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...turned around to ask him about it, a guy walked by me talking into his cell phone about the James Taylor show. That night, I was on the list to see Death Cab for Cutie, who was playing a few doors down from Nelly, at a bar right near where Moby was DJing. On Monday, I went to the New Orleans Jam-Balaya, where I saw Randy Newman, Terence Blanchard, the Meters and Allen Toussaint. And Tucker Carlson sounded very excited about the jam-band thing with Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart that he told me he was going...
...economy lay in ruins after the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping abandoned orthodoxy to initiate sweeping economic reforms. His successor, Jiang Zemin, placed some big bets of his own: joining the World Trade Organization, allowing businessmen to become members of the Party, pushing the economic opening of the country with near-reckless vigor...
...helped prompt the Gingrich revolution in 1994. He could hike taxes and impose tough new environmental regulations on business. He might preside over a messy withdrawal from Iraq and perhaps see Iran complete development of a nuclear weapon. Any one of these things could pump some life into the near catatonic...
...near future, expect to see a convertible version of the R8. What you won't see is huge numbers of R8s on the road. Ever. Rhys thinks Audi will keep global production at 4,500 for the time being, though it could eventually push it to 6,000. Even so, that's still not many cars. Which is the idea. De Nysschen insists Audi will ensure that demand for the R8 always outstrips supply--to keep its aura of exclusiveness intact. "In that market segment," he says, "the difference between too many and too few cars...
...goes back to the oldest of all political life stories: the one about being born in a log cabin. Rising from poverty to within grasp of being President clearly does say something admirable both about you and about the country where this can happen. Obama's story is a near perfect 21st century updating of the log-cabin myth...