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I suppose The Ugly One has some comment on beauty and superficiality to make but it's too straightforward and unsurprising to offer even modest insight.
For this year's edition that runs from April 18-22 2012, Daniel Hug is breaking new grounds by collaborating with the New Art Dealers Alliance; the organization already runs a fair in Miami.
Although conservative candidates revel in ridiculing Western Europe, America could learn crucial economic lessons from Germany, which maintains trade surpluses, including one with China in auto parts.
While the world has focused on Greece's failures -- with the implication that it was German beneficence that allowed Greek participation in the euro in the first place -- it is easy to lose sight of the fact that Germany has been the greatest beneficiary of the creation of the eurozone.
A lot of women find it risky to tell the truth about their age. I say: How lucky, what richness! It's like having a private treasure-trove that must be shared with the young and the innocent! It is so much more fun to be truthful and dazzle the people around you with your stories, not lies.
It seems like the recent past has delivered some strange weather. Is it part of a long-term trend? A trend due to global warming? If you require rigorous scientific evidence, the answer, at least today, is that we just don't know.
The Greek people will resist the effect of either default on Greece's economic future. They will not allow their assets to be pledged or sold to the seemingly stronger nations.
Late last year Portugal. The Man performed the track "So American" acoustically for A-Sides, and John Baldwin Gourley discussed its meaning.
Why, wonder many, do some nations need bailouts while other ones do not? Does the answer lie in culture? Possibly. And the key may be in whether you live in a Red Light or Green Light culture.
Chancellor Merkel and her policymakers have been acting on the basis that Greece is an isolated case. Yet every reactive decision and feeble measure by Berlin increases the likelihood of a Greek tragedy becoming a Europe-wide one.
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I wish we had this cool stuff in my country. But we don't. Instead, our government spends money on crippled people and old people and people with mental problems, and fixing old bridges and building highways and hospitals and things like this. We are not so cool as you.
As I gave the attendant my bag of clothes and personal belongings, he wrote "477" on my arm with a Sharpie. There I was, in Germany, stripped of my clothes, stripped of my identity, with a number on my arm. It was quite surreal, but then we drank and were merry.
As for the politicians, both the incumbents and those seeking to replace them, they'd do well to begin to engage in those discussions rather than merely scoring points against each other -- and to take the lead in the search for new strategies and new solutions.
A willingness to implement long-term plans focused on what's best for the country, rather than scoring cheap political points, might go some way to explaining why Germans respect their politicians more than Americans do.
