Late Friday night, January 13, disaster struck off the coast of the tiny island of Giglio near Tuscany in a scene reminiscent of Titanic after the Costa Concordia cruise ship crashed in to the island late Friday night. Almost two days later, 17 passengers are still unaccounted for, and three of the 4,000 passengers […]
As before, Detroit has become the boogeyman in the recession obsessed American imagination. As Reagan promised, the effect trickled. First there were the Vanity Fair profiles of the fallen super rich whose mammoth East Hampton mansions were abandoned, semi-erect. Time-shares with Marquis were jettisoned and the Wall St. set had to hump it out in […]
