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...years old, married to Amy Rule, a woman he met on a blind date. They have three children...
...people thinking and writing about debt. But few of them are Booker Prize--winning novelists, and that's what makes Payback--equal parts philosophical essay, literary criticism and historical narrative--a compelling project from the start. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin examines the science of give-and-take, from evolution (studies of chimpanzees' innate concept of fair play) to religion (themes of redemption in Christian theology) to literature--where Atwood realizes that debt drives many a plot (Vanity Fair, A Christmas Carol). And what happens when, she asks, "people don't pay their debts...
...these strange but memorable stories, Tsutsui invites the reader to explore the ridiculous. One just hopes that some readers will respond to his invitation. After all, aren’t we all just trapped in the same mindless, socially imposed preoccupations that cage Tsutsui’s protagonists and blind them to savoring—or even just realizing—the beautiful uniqueness of their circumstances? —Staff writer Rebecca A. Schuetz can be reached at schuetz@fas.harvard.edu...
...Causes of the Crash Reading about the subprime loan debacle, I am amazed that nobody seems to have asked the simple question: What will happen if a large number of these loans default? [Oct. 20] Or was it only greed that made everybody turn a blind eye to the possibility that the bubble could ever burst. Did no one consider that if the subprime-mortgage market crashed, thousands of families could have their lives turned upside down virtually overnight? Frederik Steenbuch, Oslo...
...Croatia's independence struggle - to grow even more rampantly after the country's transition to democracy. "The authorities are obviously incompetent to stand up to organized crime," said opposition MP Vladimir Sisljagic at a press conference on Monday. "This situation is a result of 18 years of turning a blind eye to war profiteering and gangsterism...