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...because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will use gadget-books and gadget-authors to satisfy demand." Happily, as Assouline notes, a boom in bottom-feeders and one-hit-wonders doesn't cancel out the sizable body of gifted authors, new and established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui. Foreign translations - a significant part of French publishing output - include...
...should underestimate the long memories and dogged persistence of the bureaucrats either. Public resistance to the Yoshino dam project in Tokushima forced the River Bureau to "table" it. The bureau did not officially cancel the project, keeping the option of pursuing it later. A bureau spokesman commented that a blank page should not be allowed to appear in his ministry's history dating back to the Meiji period?institutional memory going back more than a century...
State agencies and nonprofit organizations have received hundreds of complaints in the past few years from clients who feel bilked. Some custodial parents don't realize how difficult the contracts are to cancel and find themselves paying exorbitant fees for services that aren't fully delivered. "We have all sorts of people who have gone to private agencies and feel ripped off and lied to," says Geraldine Jensen of the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, whose members are low-income parents seeking child support. Channeling the collective anger, Charles Barr, a lawyer in Milwaukee, Wis., has filed...
Broadcast executives say that because they need huge audiences to draw advertising dollars, and are restricted by Federal Communications Commission content standards, they have to play more to the middle. "We cancel shows left and right that get audiences that are the size of cable hits," says NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. "I'm a huge admirer of HBO," says CBS president Les Moonves, "[but] there is a word that describes us: it's broadcaster, with broad being the operative word...
...struggle to maintain their one-vote hold on the chamber: If these are such great ideas, why hasn't the Democratic Senate passed them? An in-your-face assault on Bush's economic policies would reopen one issue that national Democratic leaders have been eager to avoid: Would Democrats cancel the remaining installments...