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The Best Idea Pieces from Newspapers, Magazines, and Journals around the World

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Writing: The writer’s life used to mean ten years of suffering. Now, it’s sell immediately or perish, says Dani Shapiro.
Life: Jennifer Michael Hecht wrote about staying alive after two friends committed suicide.
Market: A record-setting sale of a Giacometti lights up the art world.
Fashion: What does it mean to be green?
Animation: The young women who made Disney in the 1930s and 40s.
Film: Three movies showing at Sundance shed light on the Arab world.

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Monday, July 6, 2009
Abe Lowenthal on Globalizing California
Swati Pandey

Abe Lowenthal

According to Abraham F. Lowenthal, professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, California shouldn't get too preoccupied with its current economic crisis, however pressing. "It is important to pay attention to the urgent, but it is equally vital to keep our eye on what's going to be truly important in the 21st century....

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Orson Welles
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Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, and directed his most acclaimed film, Citizen Kane, at age 26. Years later, after a couple disastrous movies and a sojourn in Europe, he would reunite with one of its stars, Joseph Cotton, in The Third Man. Welles' character, Harry Lime, is the missing center of the movie until he appears, finally, and explains his motives for entering a less-than-savory line of work....

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