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...What a difference a decade makes. Bloomberg is now New York City's Mayor, and Tuesday he quit his second major party, bailing on the Republicans just as he bailed on the Democrats in 2000. It's not a huge shock; in an interview for TIME's current cover story on Bloomberg and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, he was equally dismissive of reds and blues. "I don't see any difference between the parties," he said. "They can't stop pork. They can't stand up to the NRA. They can't work together...
...subject is still a hot topic on Chinese websites, where much of criticism was directed at the authorities for failing to intervene to stop the human trafficking and enslavement of the brick kiln workers. Even in usually docile official publication like the English language China Daily, the sense of shock and outrage many Chinese felt on seeing footage and pictures of the dazed, sometimes bleeding workers being led out of the kilns was evident, even if relegated to op-ed pages...
...notice, an incident occured in which two of Kortzidis' town hall officials claimed they were battered by the nightclub owner and his wife. The officials, the businessman and his wife have since been embroiled in legal suits. A trial is expected later this year. The confrontation sent shock waves across the nation. Harrowing images of the battered officials were splashed on covers of most national dailies, propelling Kortzidis to stage his hunger strike, the most dramatic step yet in what local media have dubbed "the battle for free beaches...
...consists of watercolors on lined notebook paper that Emin made in the early '90s, which grew out of her memories of an abortion. Those were produced not long after she graduated from art school, but before she became abruptly famous as one of the YBAs: Young British Artists with shock appeal. Another is a series of middling monoprints with debts to Paul Klee and Egon Schiele. There are also some larger paintings and embroidered canvases. The best work is four wooden sculptures made from sticks attached to form makeshift towers, totems of ramshackle desire. The worst? That's easy...
Some observers suggest Floridians shouldn't gripe too much, since they don't pay a state income tax. But they do pay onerous hurricane insurance premiums (a shock being felt in other coastal states as well) that in many cases exceed what a state income tax would levy. What's more, the relatively low salaries and wages in Florida's tourism-driven economy "are hardly commensurate with those of the states we're being compared with today, like California and New York," says Cancela, who heads the Miami-based marketing firm Hispanic USA. That growing gap between incomes and housing...