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...town hall in Strasbourg, France, Obama stood before an audience of mostly French and German youth and admitted that the U.S. should have a greater respect for Europe. "In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world," he said before offering other European critical views of his country. "There have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive...
When Bloomberg introduced PlaNYC in 2007, one goal stood out: New York would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 30% by 2030. Although the city is experimenting with clean-energy sources such as offshore wind turbines and solar panels, improving the energy efficiency of New York's buildings is essential. It won't be easy. Electricity use grew 23% over the past decade, twice as fast as the population, and much of the city's aging building stock leaks heat and energy like a sieve...
Back when we had a functioning financial system, the guys who ran private-equity (PE) firms stood very near its pinnacle. "The new kings of capitalism," the Economist called them. The kings of birthday parties too: the $3 million 60th-birthday bash for Blackstone Group chief Stephen Schwarzman in February 2007 will go down in history as a glaring sign that the boom was about to go bust...
...Schnotz’s Gollum-like wildness emphasizes his pathetic fall from the military, society, and humanity. In addition, Lind captures his subjects with kind of dual childishness and precision; in sketching the form of Bachmann’s girlfriend Helga, he writes, “Before their eyes stood a Valkyrie in a short blue dress, disclosing stout calves and powerful knees that gave promise of heavenly thighs… Her breasts were bigger than the legendary blue mountains and just as unlikely, her bottom was as round as a terrestrial globe.” In doing so, Lind...
...though? Of course not. Wasn’t it a bunch of Northerners in there? Wasn’t this the sort of thing they loved?It’s a good thing he took charge, directing my dazed hide to the doors. Otherwise I would’ve stood in the lobby for the rest of my life. Stunned by my great idiocy. The idiocy of rightdoing through wrongdoing. He shook his head with a smile. “Our Lord is risen.” He was clutching the handles, mashing their cool to his palms. And then...