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Economists are quick to point out that a weak dollar doesn't necessarily mean a strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
What does David Beckham's superstardom have to do with a pair of warring Bavarian brothers in the early 1900s? More than you think, according to this compelling book. Smit tells the story of Adi and Rudi Dassler, partners after World War I in a sports-shoe factory in tiny Herzogenaurach, Germany. The two got their spiked running shoes onto the feet of Olympic star Jesse Owens in 1936, but a bitter family feud soon split their business in half, resulting in the founding of Adidas (Adi's outfit) and Puma (Rudi's company). The whole town got into...
...deliberately low intensity art of humble materials and transient gestures. This is the quarter that the latest Biennial is coming from. The 2008 edition, which was organized by Whitney curators Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, has no official theme. But one of its unofficial themes is what the pair calls "lessness"--work that's less bombastic, less puffed up and made with simple stuff...
...Then there are the 35 Texas superdelegates. At last count, Clinton had 11, Obama had nine, 12 were undecided and another three are to be named later. All those numbers offer numerous possible outcomes; but nearly all of them are likely to make the delegate count tighter than a pair of Wranglers on an urban cowboy...
...Eventide,” for example, was wondrously cosmopolitan. Pickett, one of the three female choreographers, merged classical East Indian music with that of Western composers for her score. The merger directed the movement. Dancers displayed quick, sharp footwork, but then surprised with slower, sensuous pair interactions. The piece culminated in a kinetic explosion. Set against the backdrop of an abstract expressionist painting, the corps and the principal dancers responded almost instinctively to musical cues. They splattered and dripped with the flick of Pickett’s brush...