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...DIED. ARTHUR HAILEY, 84, best-selling author of thrillers such as Airport, Hotel and The Moneychangers; at his home in the Bahamas. Belittled by critics, Hailey's books were commercial blockbusters that turned mundane settings into labyrinths of deception and malice. Airport (1968) was made into a movie starring Burt Lancaster...
...Nick has a new blockbuster film, National Treasure. I’d have to say that movie should be renamed before it is released from National Treasure to National Blunder. It sucked. I guess Jerry Bruckheimer thought that no one actually saw King Arthur, so he figured he could take another ride on his Pirates of The Caribbean coattails for the second time in five months...
...back to mainstream rap (“Well if this take away from my spins / which will probably take away from my ends / then I hope it take away from my sins” is his approach to the popular/religious music divide) while good singer-songwriters like Joseph Arthur and Pedro the Lion have been doing the same in indie music. If the folk and emo sensibilities of rap and indie-pop make these genres friendlier to religion than usual, these genres also tend to be more self-conscious, making the music itself better but making the audience harder...
...ARTHUR SCHLESINGER Jr. Historian Get out of Iraq. Get out as quickly as possible, and respectfully. As long as we carry the burden of Iraq, a misbegotten war, it's going to be very difficult to do anything at home...
...lenders, which are burdened by bad loans to state enterprises and depend heavily on the deposits of ordinary Chinese to remain solvent. If the rest of the country follows Zhejiang's example, the deposit exodus could shake confidence in the entire system, sparking bank runs and a financial crisis. Arthur Kroeber, managing editor of the Beijing-based China Economic Quarterly, says the main reason the government increased interest rates last month by 0.27% for one-year loans and deposits?China's first rate hike in nine years?was to encourage people to keep their cash in banks. More interest-rate...