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...keep Garnaut in business for two decades in an industry notorious for failure. So has the combination of homely Australian cum Mediterranean cuisine (her salt-baked lamb is a comfort-food classic), served in highly original settings. The latter constitute a distinctive selling point in a country where smart restaurants are more likely to be found in the contrived spaces of soaring hotels or office-block podiums. "When I first arrived in Asia," she explains, "I was in Hong Kong and got into a lift to go up to a restaurant on the seventh floor, where we were greeted...
Option No. 1 is domestic political suicide, and it might not be smart economics either; slashing government spending and raising taxes during a downturn could worsen that downturn. Option No. 2 seems the best of the lot but has high international political hurdles to surmount. No. 3 would be a disaster for Greece and for the global financial system. As for No. 4, given that there are no procedures for leaving the euro, it might risk unraveling the entire project. In the euro's prelaunch period, a few skeptics predicted that the mismatch between a single European currency and differing...
...very smart choice of songs covers both the canonical ("Heartbreak Hotel," "Jailhouse Rock," "Burning Love") and the merely fabulous ("Got a Lot o' Livin' to Do," which accompanies an ecstatic amusement-park bit with high-bouncing superheroes). Of course the climax is "Viva Las Vegas," with 40 Elvis impersonators and a dozen chorines filling Mark Fisher's staircased set and the Big E back onscreen, overseeing the riot of color and movement...
...spent about five days with the medevacs operating out of Kandahar airfield in southern Afghanistan. There I met Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jessie Russell, a female pilot flying Black Hawks to pick up the injured. I love meeting strong, smart women doing unconventional jobs. Last April, when I was in Kandahar on another embed, I bumped into her in the cafeteria, and the encounter sparked my interest in following the medevacs once again. A few months later, I got my shot...
...these plot tweaks can be waved away because Big Love has a narrative more hurtling and congested than any series I know; it makes Mad Men's plotting seem staid by comparison ... But Olsen and Sheffer must also think that testing the credulity of the storyline, is a smart way to keep their viewers debating, guessing and glued. (See the top 10 TV series...