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...most innocent activities will attest to it just the same. For example, backpackers will be familiar with the intensely enjoyable experience of speed-reading through a non-stop, ever-changing flow of strangers. We band to navigate the foreign landscapes, bond to negotiate the lonely timespans, and then each one gets on the train to shuttle off towards more people to whom to say goodbye. It doesn't stretch the imagination any to view this period as a microsection of real life. Hey, you want to do the Great Wall with me today? Hey, you want to marry...
Yale Professor Antonio C. Lasaga was jailed again last Friday after prosecutors alleged he violated the terms of his federal bail bond...
...loosely chronicle the immigrant experience: Gish Jen's Who's Irish? (Knopf; 208 pages; $22) and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies (Mariner; 198 pages; $12). Lahiri has a gift for illuminating the full meaning of brief relationships--with lovers, family friends, those met in travel. A more lasting bond--the one between fathers and daughters--is elegantly explored in Bliss Broyard's My Father, Dancing...
...Gaulle. He was the incarnation of honor and courage. I had the privilege of knowing him and of working at his side. I learned from him that intimate, almost mystical, alliance between a nation and its leader. The relationship between De Gaulle and France was a personal and unique bond. During World War II, he was the symbol of the Resistance and later the spirit of reform. He restored political and economic stability. Never give up--have the courage to say no--embrace a collective ambition that leaves behind special interests: that is the message of Gaullism...
...lineup, which is worth pondering. With few exceptions, the company considered only funds that had at least a three-year track record. Similarly, the funds' managers had to have at least a three-year tenure at the helm. The company also chose far more stock funds than bond funds, citing its young employee base (average age: 30). For more on the firm's rationale, visit www.morningstar.net...