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What I find weird about air travel is that I don’t actually have to do anything. Here’s what I know: I get on a plane, seat myself, experience some shaking and rumbling for about five hours, get off the plane and Poof! I’m in Los Angeles. Magic! Tactile sensation, immediate contact, synaesthetic pleasure: These are the artifacts of old-fashioned travel that have been replaced by the passivity of the “commuter.” Even if I bother to look out the window somewhere over South Dakota...
...merchandise. Last winter Moss showed up at Manolo Blahnik's Design Museum show in London wearing a shredded Lanvin dress and sent fashionistas clamoring for anything by Alber Elbaz. At Mario Testino's exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, she wore a Balenciaga dress and a fur stole, and--poof!--Tom Ford was designing fur stoles. Last summer she turned up at a cosmetics party in a pair of Vivienne Westwood platform pumps, and you can bet that platforms will be big this fall...
Holding hearings to yell at Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay was easy. Now, some four months after Enron officially went poof, Congress is finally getting to the hard part - trying to apply won't-happen-again medicine to all those hearts - employees', investors', capitalism's - that were broken by the energy trader's ignoble collapse. And this is where "fixing the system" gets complicated...
...took in tech stocks that, truth be known, most of them should never have owned. Curiously, almost no one lays blame at the feet of those who bought the puffed-up shares of so many unproved companies. So bankers and analysts who concocted and endorsed the IPOs that went poof are taking the heat, as are regulators, whose thumb wasn't nearly big enough to squash some obscene practices--like analysts personally selling shares that they rated a "buy." Another dirty trick: loading up on pre-IPO shares and then slapping on a "buy" rating when the stock starts trading...
...Evil works by sleight of hand: Poof! Your child is gone. Her life and all the details of it - clothes, computer, pocket book and so on - are just as she left them. But her keys are missing. And she is...where...