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...Unlike some who are born-again, Charlie doesn't discard his old ways. He's attracted to this unlikely, maybe undoable scheme in part because it requires his own special skill set, and in part because - as Charles Foster Kane said about running a newspaper - Charlie thinks it would be fun to bankroll a counterinsurgency. In the cheerful bravado of a can-do Texan, he thinks: Hell, why not? When Charlie masterminds it, war is swell...
...Burton film that is closest visually to Sweeney Todd is Sleepy Hollow, the 1999 fable about innocence trapped inside malevolence. The desaturated color scheme of that film, set in 18th century New York City, is here applied to the streets of London a few decades later. But whereas Burton bent an old legend to comic-horror ends, this time he's not kidding. The shadows aren't faux-ominous, they are expressions of the city's pestilence of selfishness and cruelty, where the motives of virtually everyone - both lowlife and high-born - are venal and verminous...
...will, over the course of an average working life, save in tax what they paid in the first place. Effectively, the villa is free, while the owner can even earn extra cash by renting it out. And what did the Mauritian government name its brainwave? The Integrated Resort Scheme - or irs. It's enough to make the tax man see green. www.cornichebay...
...assigning countrywide baselines for deforestation - a kind of emissions cap for forestry - so that projects can be judged on a national level; ensuring one patch of logging can't be replaced with another. Though the details still need to be worked, it looks like that's the sort of scheme that seems likely to emerge out of the Bali discussions...
...It’s not that big a deal to get a postdoc if you want one,” Hughes says. “It’s a pyramid scheme. The next jump”—from postdoc to professor—“is really hard...