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Buying, though, is different from conspicuous consumption. At the string of big-box retailers north of town, a few miles before city streets fall away and the horizon takes over, shoppers leaving Kohl's and Best Buy and Shoe Carnival are carrying bags - but not huge ones. In plenty of other places, that might be a sign of cutting back. Here in Bismarck, though, moderation is business as usual. Yes, Bismarckers like their things; it's rare to drive down a residential block and not see at least a few boats or RVs sitting in driveways. But splurging never really...
Methland: The Death And Life of an American Small Town By Nick Reding Bloomsbury USA; 255 pages...
...traditional Russian art form, the artisans who still do the work in the most traditional way may be the ones who suffer most: they won't see a ruble of the government's stimulus package, which is directed only at large-scale factories. (Read "In Russia, a Recession-Plagued Town Revolts...
...Noir meets nutso in this black-and-white thriller from a vital national cinema whose films are virtually unknown in the U.S. After his car runs over something on a country road - turns out to be a skeleton - a tough-guy newspaperman stops in a small town that seems to be under the curse of a female ghost and is certainly teeming with oddballs. It's the old story of the city slicker out-crazied by the remote rubes. Unfamiliarity with Malaysian film conventions may leave you wondering whether the tone is comic or melodramatic or simply extraterrestrial. No matter...
...involvement - a charge angrily denied by Musharraf and his aides. Still, just last month, Bhutto's son and political heir, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, suggested that the dictatorship had been responsible for creating the conditions that led to his mother's killing. At a rare public speech in the British town of Bradford, the 20-year-old Oxford University student - who plans to return to Pakistan and enter politics after completing his degree - told an emotionally-charged crowd of supporters: "The extremists pulled the trigger, but it was dictatorship that loaded the gun ... it was dictatorship that allowed these fanatics...