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...Valley Boy: The Education of Tom Perkins...
...same time, the director's side businesses were turning out to be a lot more profitable than his filmmaking. By 2001 his Napa Valley winery (he now has another in Sonoma) and his resort company were earning enough for him to start production on Megalopolis with his own money. But Sept. 11 forced him to reevaluate his fictional future New York City. Banging away on the project year after year was "like being in love with a beautiful, wonderful woman who doesn't want you," he says. "You don't get her, of course, because she doesn't want...
...turmoil in Pakistan's historic Swat Valley was one reason President Pervez Musharraf cited for his imposition of martial law over the weekend. A recent rash of suicide bombings, beheadings and kidnappings of military personnel in the onetime tourist enclave has brought Pakistan closer to the brink in its faltering war against terrorism. Military forces have been battling an Islamist militia led by a radical cleric determined to establish Sharia law in the region. Yet the truth is, Swat's militancy has been festering for well over a year, with Musharraf's government unable to rein in the charismatic Mullah...
...given Labor a lift, as has a perception that the sitting Member, Malcolm Turnbull, is egregiously ambitious and opportunistic even by politicians' standards. In addition, Turnbull may pay a price for being the Environment Minister in a government that has just approved a pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley and that's seen as slow to act on climate change...
...riffling through details obscures the larger force at work--capitalism's cold efficiency. What Wall Street does is raise money to throw at innovation. Creating liquidity in mortgage markets so that more people can buy houses is not so unlike funneling billions to Silicon Valley in the 1990s to secure U.S. technological dominance...