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...still fundamentally vital lives of African nomads, as contrasted with the bleakness of modern urban European life. "Western culture has become too monolithic," Le Clézio said in a 2001 interview with the French newsmagazine Label France. "It places the greatest possible emphasis on its urban and technical side, thus preventing the development of other forms of expression - religiosity and feelings, for example. The entire unknowable part of the human being is obscured in the name of rationalism. It is my awareness of this that has pushed me toward other civilizations...
...other men. "We parked the car about 500 m away, then walked toward the house." Sensing something amiss, "my father called to [Jan] that the Taliban were around the house," Khosal says. "Then there was shooting. My father got two bullets in the throat from the front side, and then the elders who were with us came and dragged him away." When Khosal picked up his relative, who had also been shot, "I was shot...
...collateralized debt obligations. The reality is that the entire U.S. economy has been one big fractional-reserve Ponzi scheme for the past 25 years, with bubble after bubble fed by prime lending rates that have not matched the true rate of inflation. Wall Street merely set up massive side bets on the whole scheme and then failed to get out early. The last domino will be the rejection of our currency by shocked foreign debtors. There is only one piece of investment advice anyone needs, and it has been accurate for over 5,000 years: buy gold. Gold has always...
...Real Palin was blowing a harsher tune. She cast Obama as a suspicious other--"not a man who sees America like you and I see America"--in a line of attack the Associated Press called "racially tinged." Fey's Palin hasn't set up mass viewers to see this side of her--not yet, anyway. It's not the funny, bumbling Sarah we know! We're conditioned to expect her to ask to "phone a friend," not accuse Obama of befriending terrorists. So the Fey version makes it harder to see Palin as an Agnewesque hatchet woman...
...maze movie, a subgenre that has both its seductions and its brambles. A maze movie flatters viewers' intelligence, their ability to sort out the jigsaw pieces of an elaborate puzzle. So the film hopscotches the globe, Syriana-style, from Qatar to Syria, Amman to Baghdad, with an incendiary side trip to Manchester, England, and back to Hoffman's office and breakfast nook in Virginia. The film introduces so many swarthy faces--foremost among them Hani Salaam (Mark Strong), the Jordanian intelligence chief--and in such a hurry, you may feel you need the equivalent of the 55-card deck...