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...History’s presence is ubiquitous in the Advocate, suspended over every aspect of the publication. Bookshelves sag with yellowing issues, and century-old, sepia-toned photographs of all-male editors hang above the fireplace, observing—from a bygone era—the activities of the publication today. This balance between revering history and promoting the avant-garde is what distinguishes the Advocate from other literary magazines and allows it to seek out the most innovative content...
Travis Chamberlain, 30, shares this sincerity. I met him halfway through the protest march, where Columbia Boulevard starts to sag toward the Columbia River. Tall and broad-shouldered, he was leaning against a stone wall, filming the protesters - for Mayo, he said - with a small Taiwanese Aiptek HD camera. After the marchers passed, Chamberlain lit a Marlboro Light and climbed up the embankment to where his wife Kristy, 30, and friend Heather Douglas, 28, were drinking Starbucks coffee drinks near two homemade signs they had hung for the occasion: "Our Country, Our Jobs" and "We Welcome Legal Immigrants...
...third of the program's $1.9 billion budget have already been submitted, with the remainder expected to be filed long before the program's Dec. 31 expiration date. When similar initiatives were launched in France and Italy in the early 1990s, Rhys says, "there was a big sag in the market when the scheme ended." That same prospect has angered some in the industry. Christian Streiff, boss of France's PSA Peugeot Citroën, warned such incentive schemes have an "inverse effect" - they essentially guarantee an implosion in the market once the subsidies stop. (See the best cars from...
...about the 1980s and its music that brings to mind the Atlantic City casinos built in that decade. The casinos aspire to grandeur—domed, cream ceilings, great pseudo-classical columns, golden moldings—and yet are undone by the very beginning of paint peel, the first sag of the ceiling, the discolored hint of water damage from shirking on the plumbing. They might have looked good when they were first built, but they were never built to last. The defects were there from the beginning, but they were covered up by young plaster and the excitement...
...billion in aid for states, many of which have already been forced to dramatically scale back services. Still, some critics say this may not be enough. "State and local governments, in particular, were hoping for much more aid, and they'll undoubtedly be back as their own budgets sag," said Don Kettl, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The bill includes $59 billion to help unemployed workers and extends aid for their health insurance. Ninety billion dollars will go toward shoring up Medicaid, $19 billion is allocated for Obama's "down payment" on modernizing health-care records...