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...German newspaper. The fire and brimstone is part of the spd's effort to woo back voters disillusioned by the government's own economic reforms. Last Friday, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder himself joined the apocalyptic debate by calling on his ministers to examine whether hedge funds should be subject to tougher regulation. The remarks are striking, given that the same government authorized hedge funds to operate in Germany only last year. The immediate pretext for Schröder's change of heart was last week's ouster of Werner G. Seifert, the long-serving chief executive of the German...
...When it comes to monstrous crimes, the author knows his subject. His 1996 book Hungry Ghosts is the definitive account of China's 1958-62 famine, which killed some 30 million. For that work, Becker traveled through the heart of China, talking with peasants who recalled Mao's disastrous social engineering project, the Great Leap Forward. His research exposed a calamity that had been largely hidden from the world...
...Samuels wrote an O.K. 1983 book on the subject. There was a much better one, by Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum, which Samuels co-opts by having its authors carry his film's critical narrative. The rest is a brisk mix of clips and interviews with Barenholtz and other exhibitors, as well as five of the six films' directors. Midnight Movies is a pertinent, poignant reminder of an era when all sorts of weird wonders filled the screen, at all hours of the day and night - back when progressive directors went about breaking taboos, not surrendering to Hollywood's fondness...
Giles’ time as curator of the Nieman Foundation has been the subject of controversy recently. In February, a front page article in the Boston Globe lambasted Giles for stimulating alumni unrest concerning his expansion of the foundation’s focus to hold events and workshops for non-Nieman journalists...
...internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder the manager of the Cow Bar, Peter Larsen, as a group of brightly clad Tibetan women peer into his premises. The Cow Bar (housed in a former barn) and other establishments have become a subject of great local curiosity. "People just can't believe that we're using this animal's den to serve martinis." But that kind of juxtaposition is precisely the charm of Zhongdian's cocktail circuit. With steep, cobbled lanes, wooden houses, courtyards, and prayer flags fluttering in the wind, Dukezong...