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...French are quite in touch with their hatred of capitalism, but they hardly remember France’s original sin with financial markets. Back in 1719, in what became the first modern bubble (and bust), John Law single-handedly obliterated the incipient Parisian stock market. Once a penniless gambler, the rogue Law became part of the King’s court and eventually rose to Controller-General of Finances. He achieved control of the central bank, most money-issuing mints, the national debt, the collection of indirect taxes, and the largest player in the market, the Company of the Indies...
...coaching staff felt as if they were playing against both the Yale team and the referee squad. “The erratic calls got under our skin,” Delaney-Smith said. “Yale was allowed to be very physical where we got called for touch fouls.” Despite Harvard always looking the better team, the Bulldogs hung around until the very end. A big three from junior Niki Finelli put the Crimson up by 10 with just over four minutes to play, but the Bulldogs refused to go away. With the lead down...
...Hillary Clinton's campaign were a TV show, what kind of TV show would it be? Her message focuses on her experience and wonkish policy competence, with a touch of glass-ceiling-breaking empowerment: The West Wing, by way of Lifetime. Yet voters came to know her as both a political figure and the star of a domestic drama: her husband's infidelity and impeachment. "She has the soapiest personal story, combined with the potential to be the most powerful leader in the world," says Darren Star, former producer of Sex and the City. "The tension between...
...which focuses on dramatic toms in the verses. The emphasis is once again on Caws’ milky tenor, and with lyrics like “Beautiful beat, lift me up from distress” the song sounds like meditation set to rock music. The instrumentation, which includes a touch of strings here and there, helps this euphoric feeling along. In “Beautiful Beat” we see an example of repetition used well, a rarity on this album. Then “Lucky” moves on to the filler tracks. Subsequent songs channel Simon and Garfunkel...
...1920s rather than the original 18th century Italy. The show makes use of gramophones and cameras to make the production authentically anachronistic. Spellberg: It’s a darkly funny show and lends itself to a certain kind of flamboyance. It’s an opera that enjoys a touch of extravagance in a way that the ’20s had. To set it in the twentieth century would be to set it in a moment in history where the social world is about to crumble. The aristocratic social world is on its last legs, and the servants...