Monthly Archives: August 2011

London’s burning

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Michaela

The questions are uncomfortable – is this just mindless violence or has London failed to address deep social problems that it thought belonged to the past ?

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Alexander Mc Queen: “I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . … Continue reading →

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Savage Beauty

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Michaela

A wonderful exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York,organized by The Costume Institute, celebrates the late Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion. Alexander McQueen challenged and expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, … Continue reading →

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Credibility, Chutzpah and Debt

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Michaela

By Paul Krugman To understand the furor over the decision by Standard & Poor’s, the rating agency, to downgrade U.S. government debt, you have to hold in your mind two seemingly (but not actually) contradictory ideas. The first is that … Continue reading →

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Mutual dependency

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Michaela

By Javier Solana Humanity’s main concerns today are not so much concrete evils as indeterminate threats. We are not worried by visible dangers, but by vague ones that could strike when least expected – and against which we are insufficiently protected. There … Continue reading →

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Song of the rain

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Michaela

By Khalil Gibran

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Just comic

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Glerikud

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24 hours after Hiroshima

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Michaela

August 6, 1945. Experience the second-by-second events just moments before an atomic bomb is used on people for the first time in human history.The use of atomic weapons brought a quick end to World War II, but at an incredible … Continue reading →

The last straw

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Michaela

By Stephen S. Roach, The Chinese have long admired America’s economic dynamism. But they have lost confidence in America’s government and its dysfunctional economic stewardship. That message came through loud and clear in my recent travels to Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, and … Continue reading →