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Spin Cycle Complete Over the summer the Sotheby's sale - which has one of those wonderfully daft Hirst titles, "Beautiful Inside My Head Forever" - got the kind of presale treatment that Boeing and Airbus give the rollout of a new jetliner. In August a selection of the material was shipped...
True Blood makes little effort to rethink genre conventions, as HBO did with shows like The Sopranos and Deadwood. The vampires have spooky eyes and fangs that click into place. When Sookie reads people's minds, they speak in complete sentences. This last is a mechanical failure (that's not...
It is not easy to write fiction inspired by current events, especially if those events involve politics. The stage is too grand, the spotlight too bright. Our public life already is ridiculously flagrant, far too obvious and overwrought for good fiction. And so, all too often, political novels descend from...
The transformation has been so complete, reckons Davies, that Sasol's past connections to apartheid are now irrelevant. "We feel pretty good about the contribution we are making to South Africa and this continent," he says. "We're offering a partial solution to the energy situation on a global basis...
Even with a new President inclined to increase spending, throwing money at the problem isn't the answer. "There is no strategic plan," says former Senator Bill Frist, a heart and lung surgeon before he entered politics. Frist voted to double NIH funds in 1998 but wouldn't recommend it...