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...warning light flashed in August 1996 when, documents show, a trainee test driver in Oscoda, Mich., lost control of an Explorer while conducting lane-change maneuvers at 52.5 m.p.h. According to the accident report, the driver overcorrected for a rear-end slide, sending the vehicle first into a four-wheel slide and then a 360[degree] flip...
WICK: Exactly. Unique know-how. A few years ago, I went to see a company doing their IPO roadshow. They refused to put up their slide show because they were concerned that venture capitalists would be in the room and take their business plan and shop it. That's a great example of a company that doesn't have a whole lot of proprietary content. If everything about the company can be put into a bunch of slides, then there's not much there...
...social safety net, providing economic padding--and a political bulwark--for the inevitable layoffs and business collapses. Koizumi and Takenaka also need to go into sales mode, a Japanese version of the Bush road show on taxes. And, on a technical note, Japan needs to let its currency slide. A weaker yen--say, 135 to the dollar--would strengthen corporate profits. The danger is that a sliding yen could set off a round of devaluations, as neighboring economies rush to slash their exchange rates. Here is where the U.S. can, finally, help Japan. By nodding support to a slow devaluation...
...left, a detail from a tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...
...rhythms, including cumbia (a hot, syncopated dance music) and vallenato (a sweet, accordion-led genre). There are also futuristic flourishes: electronic beats, turntable scratching and tape loops. Luz Azul (Blue Light) is a song of hope directed at Colombians: "Let the emotion of the music penetrate you/Let the discord slide past you." Another track, Fantasia, is more overtly political, comparing American international influence to the tyranny of the Roman empire. But some of the best numbers are unabashed, almost old-fashioned, love songs. On El Album, Echeverri sings of a passion that haunts like a photo: "As I save...