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Thus far, fears of a "hard landing" for China's economy appear to have been overblown. The Chinese government has taken measures to curb some of the wilder excesses, tightening conditions on some bank loans and raising interest rates to stave off inflation. But the government clearly has its limits. There was broad agreement among the panelists that Chinese authorities have little interest in unlinking their currency from the dollar, despite consistent pressure to do so from the U.S. "The sanguine view is that it is not in the interest of the Asians to break the dollar link," said Tyson...
Homi K. Bhabha, Rothenberg Professor of English, who also helped moderate the discussion, brought up another category of border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding...
Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English, who also helped moderate the discussion, brought up another category of border-crossing elements: those of Benegal’s “working milieu.” Benegal listed a prodigious number of influences, ranging from American directors like Billy Wilder and John Ford to the French nouvelle vague and Italian Neo-Realists, from the works of Tarkofsky, Eisenstein and other Russian filmmakers—which were easiest to come by in his youth, he explained—to Kurosawa and, perhaps most importantly, Satyajit Ray, the director credited with founding...
...came when he announced a cover of a Neil Young song (“Revolution Blues,” from his classic album On the Beach). As the band began to play, Sparhawk surreptitiously emerged from behind the curtain to join the band in this cover, showcasing his louder, wilder side on some tremolo-tastic guitar accompaniment. Seeing the normally subdued Sparhawk thrashing briefly on his guitar evoked his side-project the Black-Eyed Snakes, for which Sparhawk rattles out aggressive blues guitar and wails through an old harmonica microphone. In the end, the hauntingly beautiful lyrics of the Young...
...Corker both insist that the media attention will not change the function of the job. Corker said he declined all requests for interviews, and has already scheduled a number of events for February including concerts in Loker Commons, a roller skating party “in the Van Wilder vein” and busses to the Beanpot tournament...