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...mont, co-founder of the Paris-based Politico-Economic Observatory of Capitalistic Structures. To avoid this, he and Touati both say that states must freeze their spending at current levels to speed up a return to economic growth. But when that happens, they add, governments must also start slashing budgets, reducing expensive state services and cutting jobs - all the things that tend to weigh economies down in good times. Why? Because they say the only way big-spending nations can avoid implementing drastic debt-reduction measures is by prompting massive GDP growth - something few observers see happening anytime soon...
...From the start of “Zebra,” the first and arguably best track on the record, the music is dreamlike and catchy, holding the listener under its trance of deep, soothing vocals and repetitive but variant beats. Legrand communicates a sad and disappointed air, while refusing to let her love...
...Want,” the nostalgic misery finds directness in small lyrical details and Jim Eno’s unbroken backbeat. The pounding “Is Love Forever?” takes a more existential approach to love lost. “When I’m older, start to wonder, was that love or instinct working? / Have I even felt it ever?” Daniel asks on one vocal track, while its counterpart screams over staccato guitar chords...
...reader (Scott Shepherd), who transforms from an everyman office drone into “Gatsby” narrator Nick Carraway, casually begins reading the book on the pretext of waiting for his ancient, uncooperative computer to start up. Despite receiving odd looks from fellow employees, he continues reciting the text aloud. Soon, the play subtly shifts, and each one of the nobody office workers is cast in a role, drafted into the reader’s imaginary Fitzgeraldian world, where the romance, humor, and brutality of “Gatsby” are all poignantly real...
...positive and - in the tradition of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who won the House for Republicans in a surprise wave in 1994 - introduce some version of a new Contract with America. "The approach [to oppose Obama's agenda] was clearly set by the leaders to try to jump-start a moribund and dispirited party, and with the idea that if they could do what their Gingrich-led predecessors did in 1993-94, they could return to majority status on the back of a failed President with a divided majority party," Ornstein says. "It works less well, ironically, when there...