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Speaking of dances, my favorite piece is 'Bees,' because you go through a dramatic arc that involves a dance and a tragic death scene. How do you bring your dramatic flair to these? Because I write them, I already have a tone in my head. I occasionally make the males scream and suffer about their deaths, because I assume that nobody wants to die. Even in mating...
Most of the CBL contracts with German municipal authorities were concluded in the late '90s. After a while, the IRS caught on to what was clearly a tax scam on the part of the American investors. The tax write-off applied to purchases of foreign infrastructure assets. But the German assets were not purchased; they were being leased. So in 2004 the loophole was closed...
...Back, Micklethwait and Wooldridge--the editor in chief and Washington bureau chief, respectively, of the Economist--map a spiritual surge that would bring Nietzsche to tears. "The great forces of modernity--technology and democracy, choice and freedom--are all strengthening religion rather than undermining it," they write. Americans are "exporting their faith" by wedding it to their other gods: belief in free markets and "putting the consumer first." Corporations proudly tout Christian values, pastors like Rick Warren are launching publishing empires from the pulpit, and U.S.-style megachurches are sprouting from Seoul to Guatemala City, where one cavernous house...
...study's chief limitation is the nature of its data. "By virtue of Getty's motivation as a market-driven business," the authors write, "its database is an accurate measure of what one might call the 'events that matter.'" To be more precise, though, the database generally catalogs glitzy events where shutterbugs can count on preening targets with boldface names. That's great if you work for Page Six or can waltz past the velvet ropes at Les Deux. But the study seems not to hone in on places generating buzz but rather on those whose names already resonate. This...
When my kid was young I got up at 4 or 5 in the morning and I would write. Then I would get him up at 7, take him to school, do my radio show and pick him up. Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what...