Word: pilings
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...every disillusioned or disheartened Russia booster considering withdrawal, there's someone else who is eager to pile back in. On Aug. 11, Credit Suisse issued a research note arguing that this is a great time to buy Russian stocks. The market "has been punished excessively over the last couple of weeks," wrote analyst Vladimir Savov. "While warfare is never a good thing, fundamentally Russia's economy and infrastructure are not affected ... The likelihood of military involvement of other superpowers is below average. The situation may end soon, to be replaced by diplomatic negotiations." And even as bullets flew in Georgia...
Black and White is really a novel about the Times (where I once worked as a reporter and foreign correspondent), thinly disguised as a murder mystery. What elevates it to the top of any beach-reading pile is its dead-on depiction of the idiosyncratic life of a big-time newsroom, way more chaotic and disorganized than outsiders can imagine. The adolescent jockeying between ambitious editors, the unpredictable twists of a news-driven day, the rush of deadline pressure, the bickering over how to package incomplete information, the prevalent workaholism and utter abandonment of personal lives, the nightly repairing...
...dollars at its disposal to fund large-scale reconstruction projects. It is inexcusable for U.S taxpayers to continue to foot the bill for projects the Iraqis are fully capable of funding themselves," said Levin. "We should not be paying for Iraqi projects, while Iraqi oil revenues continue to pile up in the bank including outrageous profits from $4 a gallon gas prices in the U.S. We should require that U.S. taxpayers be reimbursed for the cost of large projects...
...moments like that one--when coke and kids mix, brought together in Carr's life and his language--that you realize how successfully he has woven his tale. If the reporting device started out as a "fig leaf," to keep him from obsessing about "adding to a growing pile of junkie memoirs," it doesn't end up that way. The Night of the Gun is in part a writerly exercise in defense and disarmament--memoir in the throes of an existential crisis. But that does not prevent it from being a great read. This is largely because, in using...
...sharp little signs and pictographs denoting the specific. Its utter conviction is furthered by Miro's resort to painstaking, almost old-masterly construction and technical effects: in the mid-'30s he produced a series of tiny oils on copper, such as Man and Woman in Front of a Pile of Excrement, 1935, in which grotesqueness and scatology collide with an enameler's decorative sense. The climax of Miro's talent for oscillating between the general and the particular was his series of 23 modestly sized paintings known, collectively, as the Constellations, most of which he painted in Mallorca, after fleeing...