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When I promised change, I didn't promise that somehow members of Congress weren't going to be looking to try to get a project in their district or help a hospital in their neighborhood. What I promised was that this White House was going to constantly be pursuing the people's interests...
Langelaar, who is based in Rotterdam, and Vasiliev, who works in Berlin, first met in 2002 during their undergraduate studies. The pair met Savicic while in art school in the Netherlands in 2007. They describe their work as "geek chic." Suicide Machine isn't the first collaborative new-media project for the trio, who also operate media lab Moddr and are members of the Rotterdam-based artist collective Worm. Inspiration for the Web 2.0-suicide idea took root when Worm threw a 2008 New Year's Eve party themed "Web 2.0 Suicide Night." Recalls Langelaar: "The idea was that everybody...
...Three years ago, the commander's sentiment seemed overly bleak. For soldiers hunkered down on an isolated base that regularly took fire, giving candy to children seemed like a pretty innocent way to lift spirits. These days, however, his warning seems prescient. Just last week, soldiers inspecting a project outside of Jalalabad stopped to toss candies to kids who were swarming around their humvees. Minutes later, an explosion tore through the crowd, killing five Afghans, including two boys, and wounding nine U.S. soldiers. The crowd quickly turned on the Americans, blaming them for the deaths. (See pictures...
...same goes for international donor agencies. Afghans may appreciate paved roads or new hospitals "donated by the American people," as the project signs so proudly proclaim, but getting them to like Americans is not going to win the war. Success will only come when Afghans are willing to pay taxes to a government that is able to provide those services itself. Otherwise, the foreign endeavor in Afghanistan is destined to fail - when the donor spigot is turned off, local goodwill is bound to fade. Or worse, as in the case near Jalalabad, magnanimous gestures can all too easily be turned...
...Serrano estimates it took seven months, about 100 viewings and 30 rejected offers before he succeeded this past fall in purchasing a home. "Every time I put in a bid that I thought was reasonable, they wouldn't call back," he says. Serrano, a project manager for a demolition company, finally bought a foreclosed three-bedroom, two-bath house for $150,000 - more than $40,000 above the list price...