Word: nothingism
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The distinction between Apocalypse Now and my film is that Coppola always resolved films with ready cash. There was always a lot of money flowing around. In my case, because I had to produce the film myself, I was down to the utmost limit. So I lived in a chicken...
Our package leads off with the historian David M. Kennedy--whose book about the Depression, Freedom from Fear, won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000--revealing how F.D.R., like Obama, saw crisis as opportunity. Next up is Adam Cohen's illuminating piece on the dynamic launch of the Roosevelt Administration. Cohen...
That's a world Shonibare was born to navigate. At the time of his birth, in 1962, his father was a law student in London. When Shonibare was 3, his family moved back to Nigeria, but they returned to London in the summers. In Lagos, the future artist spoke English...
Before it began, United Nations officials had described U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's visit to Burma as a diplomatically risky mission that could end in failure. After it ended, following two days in Burma and two rare and lengthy meetings with General Than Shwe, the reclusive leader of...
Ban stressed that he would remain focused on the situation, and said he expected the government "to demonstrate real progress in the near future." Real progress, however, hasn't been seen in Burma since 1962. And contempt for the U.N. is nothing new among Burma's generals. A Burmese, U...