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Hard Ball: A Season in the Projects (Putnam; 317 pages; $22.95) tells the true story of an enterprise so hopeless and ridiculous that it bursts through the limits of ordinary absurdity and emerges, grinning like a fool, on the other side. A bunch of white yuppies, as Coyle tells it...
RUNAWAY INFLATION? On July 14, 1978, Arkla Land Co. sold a 3,600-acre tract in northern Arkansas to a company called 101 River Development Inc. for a price equivalent to about $400 an acre. On Aug. 2, a 230-acre parcel was resold. The buyers: Bill and Hillary Clinton...
Why the rapid price inflation? Why did the Clintons and the McDougals pay twice the price paid by 101 River? Why was the price increased almost 25% a year later? The only explanation available, and a not fully satisfying one, comes from James Patterson Jr., who was involved in several...
The problem with immersing so completely into one's own virtual reality is solipsism, a kind of holistic selfishness; other people don't matter unless they are players in one's own themed fantasy. It costs $150 a month just to keep a third of an acre green, and so...
As Irish, Greek and French-Canadian merchants have proved their worth and moved to better neighborhoods, energetic Southeast Asians have opened their doors for business. Dien Tran, 43, and his wife Buu Ma came to Lowell in 1980 speaking little English. Six years later, both graduated from the local branch...