Word: spirited
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MANKIW MAKES A FUNNY: Ec10 czar Gregory Mankiw also got in spirit of April Fools, posting a fake entry on his personal blog. People would have to pay to read his online musings, he said, citing the economic downturn. Oh, and apparently the professor who served proudly under the Republican Bush administration is also joining his more liberal colleagues from Harvard Ec in DC on the Obama team...
...first mosque was Muhammad's mud-brick house in Medina, where a portico of palm-tree branches provided shade for prayer and theological discussion. As the young religion spread, Arabs - and later Asians and Africans - developed their own ideas of what made a building a mosque. But that innovative spirit has slowed in recent decades, leaving most Islamic skylines dominated by the dome-and-minaret design that first appeared centuries...
...Imagination also extends to the drinks menu, where - what else? - the Scandinavian grain spirit aquavit is mixed with the likes of cucumber, lychee blossom, mango and chili to create unique cocktails, best sipped in the candlelit bar, cocooned in a soft leather Arne Jacobsen Egg chair. Samuelsson knows all about blending influences; born in Ethiopia, adopted by Swedish parents and based in America, he has introduced an original approach to a gastronomic capital where culinary passion is paramount. For details, see www.aquavit-japan.com...
...while sales may have slumped, the spirit of some of Russia's rich remains breezy. The élite GUM shopping mall, situated on Red Square, has seen its number of shoppers fall some 30% this year, according to Ageyeva, the buyer. But Lilya Bondarchuk, a manager at the Jil Sander store in GUM, says that "clients joke about the crisis and ask each other if they have noticed it yet." Natalya Batalova, a corporate attorney who shops at GUM every few months, says she hasn't felt the crisis so far. "I don't know what it is," she says...
...Politically we have to be careful that in the spirit of justice we don't reach a point where the taxpayer bears the bad risks and the privately functioning banks in the end have all the good opportunities," Merkel said...