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...first few novels were met with "rapturous acclaim," especially her Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1985), and she had written three books and won Bafta Prize by the early '90s. Yet her actual writing ability has been eclipsed by her personality. Some episodes of her obnoxious self-righteousness include entering a dinner party to insult a journalist who gave her a bad review and her claims that she writes as well as Shakespeare. Other tales of conceit include her self-nomination as "favorite living author," with her choice for the 1992 Book of the Year, her own Written...
...thoughts of a graduate student in English are naturally supposed to revolve around something like the rise of the novel or the function of satire. Yet when I was such a graduate student at Yale in the mid-'90s, I found that I thought more about collective bargaining, binding arbitration and union-busting. Yale's campus saw three painful labor strikes in 1995, when neither of the recognized unions was able to settle a new contract with the university and the nascent teaching fellows union was forcefully pushing for legal recognition. While the unions for clerical/technical and service/maintenance workers finally...
Even America's evangelical community, usually at the nation's vital and visionary edge, has been uncharacteristically subdued as it ponders a retreat from the political activism of the 1980s and '90s...
...there's a lot more than economics at work in Russia's latest challenge to Washington. Moscow's military establishment looked on with alarm throughout the '90s as Yeltsin compromised their strategic interests in exchange for financial handouts from the West. The seditious grumbling over NATO's expansion onto Russia's eastern European doorstep reached a crescendo during last year's Kosovo campaign. President Putin built his election campaign around the military's brutal assault on Chechnya - a hapless attempt to restore its lost honor - and vowed to restore Russian power. Despite such humiliations as the Kursk submarine disaster, Putin...
...those aspirations is the unsightly tangle of TV cable connections that are strung across balconies and laundry lines in every Indian city. In the '90s, they were installed to bring cable TV to urban Indians. These days, they're being transformed into broadband Internet connections. There are 30 million cable connections--compared with 20 million telephone lines; 2 million people in Bombay have high-speed access to the Internet, often by way of a television set, not an expensive PC. (There are 75 million TVs in India.) A slew of companies, including Enron and Hughes Telecom, are building fiber-optic...