![]() Between recordings, the reporters stamped their feet and warmed their hands on hot beakers of coffee from the teeming café a few streets away. From time to time there came outbreaks of desultory clicking, as the watchers filled the waiting time by snapping the white canvas tent in the middle of the road, the entrance to the tall red-brick apartment block behind it, and the balcony on the top floor from which the body had fallen.īehind the tightly packed paparazzi stood white vans with enormous satellite dishes on the roofs, and journalists talking, some in foreign languages, while soundmen in headphones hovered. Snow fell steadily on to hats and shoulders gloved fingers wiped lenses clear. Photographers stood massed behind barriers patrolled by police, their long-snouted cameras poised, their breath rising like steam. THE BUZZ IN THE STREET was like the humming of flies. ![]()
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Even the most disinterested in the topic, the most inflexible of conservatives, or the most orthodox of liberals, will not fail to appreciate the historical, political and sociological (and yes, also economic) reflections contained in this admirable book, which in the Brazilian edition boasts 1,056 pages. There should only be one reason why you should not read 'Capital and Ideology', a new work by Thomas Piketty - the fear of thinking and speculating about what a less unequal, more just society could look like. ![]() ![]() ![]() RIYL Twilight Saga, the television show "Grimm", and "The Lost Boys". It's then they discover that there are other breeds of aswangs-werebeasts, witches, ghouls, and viscera-who have been residing in Portland for years.īased on Filipino folklore (aswang), "Vampires of Portlandia" is a fantastical tale of different monsters coexisting in the weirdest city in America. Who is behind the murders? And who is behind the broken covenant? 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