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Dancing! Feasting! Costuming! Masking! Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the bestselling Nickled and Dimed, turns her keen eye on the topic of group exuberance, in her forthcoming book Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (Holt; January 10). Ehrenreich argues that Mardi Gras-type behavior is vital to human behavior, and that Americans just don't do it enough, even on Christmas and New Year's. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke (exuberantly) with Ehrenreich...
...Dozens of shops in the commercial area open each day offering everything from farming equipment to plumbing supplies. The daily bustle of trade in business wares on the streets of Sanak suggests the promise of jobs to be had in Iraq, a sense Chiarelli and others say is vital to slowing the bloodshed here...
...first time that Krawciw’s family has donated maps to the University—in 1978, they bequeathed 12,000 maps to Harvard. Seegel said the maps in Krawciw’s latest collection are written in nine different languages, show remarkable quality, and document vital historical changes that have made ripples in both art and history circles. The collection includes more than 20 maps by the 17th century French military engineer and cartographer Guillaume Le Vasseur de Beauplan, whose works were used as “authoritative” depictions of Ukrainian borderlands for at least...
...World War II to saving the Asian economies from their own excesses in the 1990s. And in the future, whether it is containing Iran and North Korea, or fighting aids in Africa, or helping China assume a new role in the world, U.S. help, might and tutelage will be vital. It's nice that Italy won the World Cup. But football (sadly) isn't everything...
...slowly dispersed, and there is no question as to which of its former members has done the best for himself. ODB is dead. Method Man will forever live in sitcom infamy. The rest have decent solo careers, but only one, Ghostface Killah, has put out an album so vital (“Fishscale”) that its outtakes are essential listening...