“I think Mahfouz was once described as Egypt’s fourth pyramid. To extend the metaphor, I’m saying someone has smuggled one of Egypt’s pyramids out of the country and is putting it up for sale.”
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Social Scientist: Germans Increasingly Hostile To Disadvantaged
“Significant segments the elites and higher earners are increasingly withdrawing from a mutually supportive society. They claim the privileges of the establishment, and they fight against a minimum wage, the wealth tax and the inheritance tax, even though the policies of redistribution have been in their favor for years.”
DVD Sales Record Smashed On First-Day Release
“The Inbetweeners Movie, which was released on DVD on Monday, is expected to pass one million sales by the end of this week, making it the best-selling comedy DVD ever.”
Damien Hirst Launches A Spot-Painting-Industrial Complex
After swearing off his “abstract canvases of candy-color dots” in 2008, Hirst has started (mass-)producing his signature spot paintngs again – and “he has persuaded the gallery owner Larry Gagosian to let him take over all 11 of his galleries … to hold a retrospective” of those works in January.