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Tucker has an almost unnaturally huge voice, but when momentum builds inside a Sleater-Kinney rhythm and then arrives like a flash flood, the sound makes Tucker's seem the only appropriate voice to speak of what's at stake: in Youth Decay, love and hate, life and death...
...books are sloppy and convoluted, and parts of them often fail entirely, but that's only because of the enormous chances Pynchon takes. In Pynchon's books something huge is always at stake: the arms race begun in World War II, the scar of our country dividing North and South, the fascism of the post office. Stick to what you know is good advice for a writing seminar, but it will never get you into the ring with Homer...
...most ambitious innovation is revolutionizing how movies are financed and promoted. Koreans can now invest directly in films through online entertainment funds, with stakes as small as $10. Money raised by a fund goes toward production costs, and investors get a share of the profits if the movie is a hit (if it flops, they lose). Besides the funding, production companies get a squad of investor-marketers who care as much about box office numbers as they do about whether the guy gets the girl. Choi Chang Yeop, a 31-year-old freelance business lecturer, invested $750 in the film...
...stock market punters smarting from slumping share prices. When a similar online fund for Friends debuted in March, investors snapped up all shares in less than a minute. Friends might have been huge anyway - it has tapped a vein of nostalgia for a simpler era. But giving moviegoers a stake also helped. When the film flopped at Korea's version of the Academy Awards - not winning a single prize - fans swamped Internet movie sites, slamming the ceremony. It matters what these people think. "Netizens, the Internet generation, decide whether a movie lives or dies," says Kim Hyuk, head...
...NATO is still hoping that there will be an agreement, and that it will simply have to go in and supervise the implementation of that agreement. But if the fighting continues, presumably they'd have to move to a Plan B - a more robust engagement. NATO has a stake in Macedonia's security. The airport in Skopje is still the main supply and transit route for troops bound for the KFOR peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, and Macedonia remains an important logistical center of that mission. So although they haven't made it public, NATO is already planning a response...