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...ship it off to an exotic locale with you? Puma's creative team must have had the same thought, because it has developed a mobile 11,000-sq.-ft. (1,000 sq m) building, Puma City, which is already off traveling the world. Built for yachting's Volvo Ocean Race (Puma entered its boat, Il Mostro, and its racing team), which spans cities around the world over nine months, the building opened to the public in September during the first leg of the race, in Alicante, Spain; its next stop is Boston Harbor in April 2009. Designed by the architecture...
...what degree did media coverage of the campaign successfully illuminate the way people are? Or did the media rely too heavily on things like horse-race narratives...
Well, there's still a huge emphasis on the horse-race part, and I don't know if that will ever change. It's kind of a natural human condition: people are interested in who wins and loses. People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. The fact that the Sabbath gasbags couldn't predict it is a good thing. People actually...
...book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering why I was doing this. My father, for most of his working life, was a grocer in Kansas City. Why would anybody be interested in a Kansas City grocer to whom nothing really dramatic happened? Why would anybody want to read...
...compete for similar goals, we assign decreasing importance to selfless acts that do not contribute directly to our place in the rat race, like charity events...