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That was then. In 2007, the Russians were all over Davos once again - Russian politicians thinking ahead to the post-Putin era, and Russian businessmen riding the oil and commodities boom with a look of steely determination. Dmitri Medvedev, Russia 's First Deputy Prime Minister (and a rumored successor to Putin), spoke of Russia as "another country" from the way it had been in 2000, when its economy was marked by low productivity and high inflation...
This postpartisan era everybody wants is not going to happen, and the great longing for it is childish. What Americans say they want--or even what they think they want--needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Their objection, very often, is less to politics than to arithmetic. Do they want our health-care system fixed? Yes. Do they want Social Security and Medicare on a more solid footing? Absolutely. Will they pay for these things? Not a chance. There are no pragmatic, nonideological solutions to the big question of what the government should do and what...
...growth of channeling is a part of the larger New Age movement, an apparent outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s. An amorphous amalgam of mystical groups that take a "holistic" approach to everything from business to gardening, the movement adds an overlay of Eastern mysticism to the '60s-era rejection of materialism and the Establishment. Through a variety of techniques that may include meditation, yoga, hypnosis and fealty to a guru, the movement blissfully hopes for a new age of spiritual and social harmony...
These films, and several almost as good (mostly dating from Grant's golden era, from the mid-'30s to the mid-'40s), relied on his mercurial essence for their effectiveness. In a farce, there was often a bit of malice about him; playing romance, something wary, even near misogynistic in his relationship with a woman; and in every genre he imparted a sense of the fragility and impermanence of human arrangements. Not that such subtleties ever prevented him from taking a pratfall, or dressing up in drag, if necessary...
...illusionary nature in a world where brutality often masquerades as farce?these will abide to delight and possibly even haunt the future. Some distant day, audiences may even come to agree with a minority of Grant's contemporaries that he was not merely the greatest movie star of his era but the medium's subtlest and slyest actor as well...