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...gender-war stereotypes; the women do not gather to commiserate, the men do not spend their time talking about sports or politics. With their honesty and warmth, Jamesie and Mary become something of role models for the younger couple, who quietly rejected upward mobility in London for a simpler life in Ireland. Both couples made a deliberate decision to bind themselves to the village, to its people and especially to the land...
...Swiss turned down a proposal to start negotiating to join the European Union. But the federal government - which has been pushing for a "yes to the U.N." vote - is hoping last year's result is not an omen. Indeed, it notes that being a U.N. member is a far simpler matter than joining the E.U. And a "no" vote, proponents say, would shut Switzerland out of global decision making and undercut its role as a diplomatic mediator. "In a world where image is very important, we would be seen as selfish and arrogant," says Fran?ois Nordmann, the Swiss ambassador...
When Fastow and Skilling went back to CalPERS in 1997 with jedi ii, the natural gas projects had been replaced by unspecified energy projects. CalPERS pulled out of jedi ii in October 2000 to invest in something simpler and more transparent, and Fastow scrambled to set up an entity to take its place. Known as Chewco, it was a partnership controlled by Enron employees, including Kopper. According to the Powers report, Chewco and similar partnerships were engaged in shuffling assets to cover losses and create illusory profits. As a result, Enron overstated earnings by $1 billion from the third quarter...
...what I’ve been doing longer than I’ve been doing anything else. Once I wasn’t in a band any more, it was just sort of the natural place to go.” Doughty suggests that his sound has become simpler, and finds himself “definitely try[ing] to pack less information into a word than [he] used to.” All this simply leads him to a sound that’s “more explicitly warm and fuzzy...
...resolve this exigency, O’Reilly proposes a move beyond theory and philosophy—beyond art as a lens for social scrutiny. He proposes a return to a simpler aesthetic that values beauty above all and doesn’t concern itself with deeper remarks about the world. “I’ve chosen,” O’Reilly says, “to move beyond the cerebral and look at the beautiful.” He cites as his artistic influences Vermeer, de Hooch, Clasez and Monet. And indeed, his photographs recall both...