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Combine all that with consumers creating the illusion of status with luxe accessories--the camera phone, the iPod, the $4 latte--and the gentrification of Monopoly makes perfect sense. Is it so ridiculous to let a Toyota Prius define your identity on a game board? That's what Toyota Prius drivers do on the street...
Shopping for that cozy central Paris pied-à-terre? Consider the ad in the daily Le Monde: 18th-century townhouse, 4,137 sq m of floor space, huge courtyard, lush 2,400-sq-m garden - all tucked away in the city's ritzy seventh arrondissement. A perfect nest for your (very extended) family. Who'd part with such a jewel? The divestment-minded French state, that's who. "This is part of a major process to renew and rationalize France's real estate holdings," says an adviser to Reform and Budget Minister Jean-François Copé. Since June...
...dreadful crimes that emerge from the psychopathic minds and was in no way motivated by general social conditions or, indeed, by anything-other than perhaps a chance encounter-that was deeply woven into poor Betty Short's brief, sad, agonizingly ended life. In that sense it is both the perfect crime and the perfect subject for realistically rendered, but fantastically imagined crime fictions...
...Black Dahlia is far from being a perfect version of that story. It is, in fact a major disappointment, despite the fact that it seems, superficially, to be an ideal subject for Brian De Palma, given his passionate, long-standing obsession with the sex and violence nexus. Mostly, the movie is a tin of red herrings. That's particularly true of the triangular relationship between the cops and Kay. She, too, has been sexually abused and the movie seems to want to say that violent crimes against women were-are-more common than we like to pretend, which is doubtless...
...date this season, the Harvard men’s soccer team has not been perfect, but they have been clicking with almost complete fluidity. The only blemish in the 4-1-0 record to date has been a 4-3 season-opening loss to Old Dominion—and even in that match, the Crimson came back with a fighting instinct not seen in a few years on Ohiri Field when they scored three goals in a six-minute span late in the game to tie it at 3-3. All the cogs in the offense seem to be functioning...