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...have to make punishing cuts in the city's work force. Already, though, Bloomberg has marked a change in New York, just by being Bloomberg. "Right now the city has a massive hole in its heart," says strategist Hank Sheinkopf, who worked for the Green campaign. "The New York swagger has lost a bit of its punch. We're looking for a business solution...
...country with limited electricity or running water and few roads, many boys must forgo school to make money any way they can, even following cows with upturned palms to catch excrement to sell as fuel. Joining the army guarantees free food, clothes and cigarettes?plus the chance to swagger. "When you fight for your people, you become a man," says Shukrullah, 12, who strolls the mountainous streets of Farkhar with a loaded, unlocked Kalashnikov. For these youngsters, it doesn't matter that most soldiers have not received their $25 monthly salary for three months. "This is a very good life...
...forging a new niche for themselves. All the charm of their earlier releases has been smothered in the beefier production, which edges quite close to (God forbid) generic alterna-rock. Rin’s vocals on “Two Million” even emulate perfectly the faux seductive swagger of Garbage’s Shirley Manson. Even when Bis try for vintage synth-pop revival, as on “Robotic,” their approach is heavy-handed, unremarkable and obsolete—newcomers Ladytron have already perfected the sound. Still, the album’s final track...
...response to the tragedies. While that also means that more than 60% won't, some people wonder how honest the respondents were being. The public has made a great show of declaring that no terrorist is going to make Americans alter the way they live. And while such swagger has served us well in the past, this time it may simply be discouraging us from admitting how downright scared we are. Doing so could be a vital step toward recovery...
...rest of America. But now we know differently. Wide-open, vulnerable New York was targeted with such staggering precision and viciousness because the city, more than any other, actually does live up to the demonic Taliban caricature. We are the bin Ladenites' worst nightmare. We are rich. We swagger. We enjoy ourselves. From Wall Street to the media conglomerates of Midtown to the vast immigrant neighborhoods in all the boroughs, we embody the power and the glory of globalization. We are a profoundly secular city; nowhere else in America are people freer to worship their own gods...