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Still, renouncing U.S. citizenship is not an easy decision, since it is extremely difficult to re-acquire. Also, one must become a real expatriate, since it is illegal to live in the U.S. more than a third of the year.
Some writers are born with a theme, some acquire a theme, and some have a theme thrust upon them. But however writers come by it, their great subject provides a surge of intensity to their work that no other material can. The novels of Mona Simpson, for example, go electric...
"The gut has an immune response which almost never rejects proteins," said Weiner. "From that fact, we postulated that if a person was fed the protein which his immune system was attacking, the body would acquire a tolerance to the protein and thereby lessen the attack."
Nor did I acquire the true deep structure of the church's doctrinal rationales, its ideals and distastes. The strictures involving family and divorce were fine print that I was too young to care about. The view of sex, which I cared about a lot, seemed punitive and refracted: at...
Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. agreed to acquire financially troubled Borden Inc. K.K.R. will swap $2 billion of its holdings in R.J.R. Nabisco in exchange for all of Borden's outstanding stock. In a second part of the transaction, R.J.R. will issue additional new shares worth $500 million to Borden in...