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...Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which wiped out the stockholders of those institutions, to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, which did the same to that company's investors, to the run on money-market mutual funds, to the run on Washington Mutual, to the House's unexpected failure to pass the bailout bill the first time around...
...Sept. 11 made Muslim nations a playground for spies, as Berlin was during the Cold War. But the new boom market was different; KGB agents weren't likely to blow themselves up to make a political point, and the middle-class whites in the CIA couldn't easily pass for Arabs to infiltrate an al-Qaeda cell. Ferris makes use of locals to sleuth out information. But he and Hoffman have a bigger, wilder plan. The notion is to plant incriminating data on a plausible corpse and create a fictional CIA spy who the terrorists will believe has penetrated their...
...thereminesque Ondes Martenot to harps and an acrylic doodad of Albarn's co-invention that replicates the sound of car horns on busy Chinese roads--are lavish, but the exoticism is somehow kept in check. Typical of Albarn's various cultural adventures, he doesn't attempt to pass as a local; the details and pentatonic scale may come from Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies are rooted in pop. The fluttering female voices on "Heavenly Peach Banquet" resolve as the la-la-la-la-las from Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You." "Iron Rod" sounds like R2-D2 rapping...
...crucial task for the Crimson will be stopping the versatile Cornell offense, capable of relying both on the pass...
...would not tolerate such a regression.) And as an industry builds around the quest to glue young people to their TV screen, the least we can do is turn a dubious development in a more unambiguously positive direction. The educational games and interactive novels described in the Times report pass the Hippocratic test of viability as teaching tools: They, evidently, do no harm. But almost as important as a teaching model that successfully engages with children learning to read is a reasoned acknowledgement that, should this trend run out of control, the next generation may tragically miss in the world...