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January 2008
The Joint Strike Fighter isn't a done deal, and the leadership at the Pentagon seems dead set against buying anymore F-22s beyond the four they just ordered to keep the production line open past 2011. If Boeing can put something together that would offer a real leap beyond JSF--it isn't so far fetched that they could divide and conquer. Posted by Michael Goldfarb at 12:47 PM | Permalink | E-mail the author | E-mail article .
Dumpster Divers Go Mainstream In Thrifty Germany
Sven Brylla has been furnishing his apartments for years with discarded furniture, wood and fittings snagged off the streets of Berlin. In his kitchen stands a fridge so old that it predates electricity. Meltwater from a metal icebox once ran between the panels of the wooden cabinet, cooling its contents. Now it's his cupboard. His kitchen table is a gnarled old workbench. He found his favorite armchair at a garbage dump. His revolving inventory of street junk has included 20 vintage radios and half a dozen prewar bicycles made in the USSR. In many other countries, dumpster divers like Mr. Brylla would be written off as eccentrics. In Germany, he's just a normal 36-year-old graphic printer brought up to look down on wasting money on new things when sturdy old stand-bys are there for the taking.
'Vantage Point' makes for tense viewing
Vantage Point follows Cloverfield as the second major popcorn movie of 2008. An over-plotted, gimmicky presidential-assassination thriller, its interlocking pieces have to fit just-so for it to stay coherent and ratchet up the tension. It's quite the contraption, but it clicks. Unlike the equally gimmicky Cloverfield, Vantage Point allows us time to care about what happens, who lives and who dies.
The tricky business here is showing, from half a dozen points of view, a terrorist attempt on the life of a U.S. president ( William Hurt) during an anti-terrorism summit in Spain. Scenic Salamanca hurtles by at a blur as we follow a cable news network's coverage of a speech that ends with shots fired and explosions. Testy exchanges between a reporter (Zoe Saldana, the least-convincing player in the cast) and her producer ( Sigourney Weaver) suggest this network doesn't want to cover the protesters within the crowded plaza's cheering crowd.
January 2007 Archives
I'm going on about all this because the big news today is that the Police are reuniting for the Grammys, which take place on February 11. This is a big deal because, as my sis could tell ya all about, they all hated each other when the Police dissolved in 1984. The biggest drama took place between Sting and Stuart Copeland, who probably fought over whose frostilocks looked better. Men! Word has it that this Grammy reunion will kick off some type of world tour... I'm sure my big sis will be there. L, if you are, pick up a new shirt... on me! I definitely owe you one. .
After just one year, ASU junked its scholarship program for illegal ...
Clearly, this could have been handled with a bit more grace. Here's another question: Just how hard did ASU work on getting donations for this scholarship? I haven't heard any direct requests for support. Granted, I'm not rich and not an ASU alum; I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving me off their fundraising list. But with an issue like this, you'd think a public plea would be in order — if nothing else, a story in the newspaper urging people to give. I can't find any evidence that ever happened. When we last heard about this issue, President Crow made it sound as though the matter was taken care of. ASU had found private funds. Period. Which makes me wonder this. Did ASU really run out of money? Or was it just easier not to raise it? With legislators breathing hot air and an angry mob at the gate, it surely would be easier for ASU to cut 207 Mexican-born students adrift than to keep fighting.
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