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...highest honors that a young writer can receive: the Dylan Thomas Prize, one of the world’s highest-paying literary awards. But Dovey, who spent her college years immersed in film and farms rather than fiction, is certainly not the stereotypical writer-prodigy. The budding author took some time to chat with FM about her past exploits and present pursuits.1. Fifteen Minutes (FM): With that accent of yours, you can’t be a Boston native. Where are you from? Ceridwen Dovey (CD): That’s a long, messy story. I grew up in Australia...
...fate in coming months; while outright avoidance may work when it?s junior?s Little League coach, handling a relationship with a friend or coworker who?s recently suffered such a blow needs a delicate touch. To help, TIME?s Kathleen Kingsbury sought the advice of Anne Baber, co-author of How to Fireproof Your Career, based on interviews with several hundred laid-off employees. Below, an edited version of Baber?s ins and outs of lay-off etiquette...
Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down...
...year. It was that allegation that served as the political ammunition party leaders needed to oust Mbeki, though observers suggest they had a much broader list of complaints. "So much antagonism has built up towards him that people were determined not to let him go in any dignified way," author and ANC parliamentarian-turned-critic Andrew Feinstein told TIME. "That is related to the very autocratic and cut-throat policies that he introduced in his own presidency...
Physiology could help explain why people are so resolute, often infuriatingly, in their political views. Says John Hibbing, another co-author of the study and a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: "We need to maybe recognize that we're not going to cause our political opponents at some point to kind of break down, head in hand, Perry Mason-style and say that they're wrong. They just see the world differently; they feel it differently...