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There aren't many writers who have ascended into the literary ionosphere and then fallen back down to earthly obscurity with the nose-bleeding steepness of Barthelme. In the 1970s, he was considered the future of literature, and he still has fanatical supporters, my family being Exhibit A. But mostly he's regarded as a dead, twisted branch on the evolutionary tree of American letters. The first major biography of him, Tracy Daugherty's Hiding Man (St. Martin's; 581 pages), should help correct that...
...Livni's bid to become Israel's first female Premier since Golda Meir in the 1970s looks increasingly hopeless. Spurned by Netanyahu, she will turn left to Labor and other smaller parties - but the only way she can make the numbers add up to a 61-seat majority is if she entices Lieberman to join her. The drawback is that if she succeeds, Labor and the leftist parties will leave in disgust. The Arab parties, which have a total of 11 seats, are also unlikely to join a Livni-led coalition because they remain angry over the Gaza invasion. Israeli...
...shrewd campaign move in light of recent warnings by several prominent rabbis that casting a vote for Lieberman would be "strengthening Satan." A burly Soviet immigrant to Israel in the 1970s - his Hebrew still retains a Russian inflection - Lieberman provoked the rabbis' ire not only because he is a secular Jew, but also because his tough, anti-Arab slogans are luring many hawkish Israelis away from religious parties. A trip to the Western Wall was a way for Lieberman to underline his kosher credentials. (See pictures of Israel's war in Gaza...
...shots--to plan a postwar financial system. The Bretton Woods creations included the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and a quarter-century of fixed exchange rates built around a U.S. dollar that was linked to gold. The fixed exchange rates and gold standard unraveled in the 1970s, and ever since we've had a system in which the IMF occasionally steps in to help countries in currency crises (usually imposing harsh terms in the process) but exercises no real control over the global financial system...
...Young men and women were walking around in suits with name tags, heading out to begin their two years of mission work. The driver from Salt Lake to Park City explained the whole story of the Mormons to me—from Joseph Smith to the point in the 1970s when Latter Day Saint clerics announced that miraculously the Mormon church was no longer just for white people. I soon found that the most common defense of character in Utah is, “I’m not Mormon.” The driver was Italian, he said...