Cutaneous metastasis is a rare occurrence and often is confused with infectious etiology most commonly herpes zoster rash. We present a case 49 year old male with history of metastatic colon cancer ...with persistent dermatomal vesicular rash that thought to be due to herpes zoster. A skin biopsy eventually revealed malignant cells.
While the demise of the dollar has been predicted in the past, expectations of a fundamental change in the international role of the dollar are increasingly widespread, and eminently plausible. From ...a situation where the dollar was the undisputed and dominant international currency, one likely scenario is that it will become one of several key currencies that could be characterized as 'peer competitors'. This raises the question: does it matter? In particular, does it matter for US power? This paper reviews why the dollar's status might change, from that of a 'top' to a 'negotiated' currency. It then considers the consequences-the loss of economic benefits and structural power, and the costs associated with managing a currency in (relative) decline and eroding international prestige. I conclude that, even as the dollar is likely to remain the world's most widely used international currency, the vulnerability of the greenback presents a potentially significant and underappreciated restraint on contemporary American political and military predominance.
Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, ...economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." InHollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ways in which key films from this period-includingChinatown,Five Easy Pieces,The Graduate, andNashville, as well as underappreciated films such asThe Friends of Eddie Coyle,Klute, andNight Moves-were important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times.
These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood's embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters' interior lives.
For at least a decade, many have argued that the predominance of the dollar as the world's currency will gradually erode, and give way to a more multipolar international monetary order. The four ...papers in this special issue challenge this conventional wisdom, and hold that the hegemony of the dollar remains irresistible and unchallenged. Looking carefully at available evidence, each paper argues forcefully that the dollar remains predominant, and that expectations of its decline are greatly exaggerated. Nevertheless, although the dollar stands unrivaled at the moment, the pillars of support that have historically sustained its hegemony are eroding. Three warning signs loom especially large: regarding the trajectory of American power and international influence, the role of international politics in shaping the international monetary order, and the outcomes generated by the U.S. political system. Each of these should give pause about the sustainability of unrivaled dollar hegemony indefinitely into the future.
Passive Resistance Kirshner, Jonathan
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Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film, Le silence de la mer (1949), is available for the first time in North America in the form of a sparkling new edition from the Criterion Collection, stuffed with its ...customary irresistible extras.
Even before the global financial crisis, many observers anticipated a relative reduction in the dollar's role as an international currency. For a number of reasons, the crisis has served to ...accelerate that process, increasing pressure on the dollar and heightening its vulnerability. In particular, the discrediting of the US economic model, especially in Asia, and the encroachment on the international role of the dollar from a number of sources, especially the Chinese Yuan as well as the Euro, will present new challenges to the greenback and to US macroeconomic management. Here, Kirshner elucidates the likely international political consequences of these developments, for US power in particular but also for international politics more generally.
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