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...question such a specter poses to both banks and governments is vexing: doesn't extending new loans to companies and individuals whose income might significant suffer during economic shrinkage risk creating the same sort of toxic debt that provoked the on-going global crisis in the first place...
...pray in times of crisis? After the fall of the twin towers, most prayers for self-preservation also included prayers for the dead and for the safety of all. That sort of bigger, more compassionate plea is not quite as automatic this time around. Is it all right to be straightforward in your imploring - to beseech God on behalf of you and your family's personal fortune - or is that somehow selfish? And is that all there is? Or is this prayer, too, expected somehow to encompass a bigger and more compassionate principle...
...Night of Stars” on Friday night clearly aimed to make good on this dream, and the resulting evening was a somewhat disproportionate amalgam with occasional bursts of fireworks.The program opener was Jorma Elo’s “In on Blue,” a sort of “Midsummer Night’s Dream” set in water, evoking a fairy underworld and land of mer-people. Elo, a Finnish choreographer and the acclaimed “successor” to William Forsythe, evidently takes transition to the modern very seriously: the ballet featured...
...novels in different countries?JC: Yes, the reading demographic in different countries varies enormously. In Korea and Japan apparently lots of punks read my books. In Russia they’re popular among both university students and women. In Italy, France, and Sweden the books are categorized as a sort of “surreal noir” and the hipster crowds there buy them. The variety delights me and I often find myself grinning like a child when I hear who likes them.—Interview conducted, condensed and edited by Rebecca A. Schuetz.—Staff...
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