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...says it reminds him of a book penned by another President who was trying to salvage his reputation: Richard Nixon's 1962 bestseller, Six Crises, in which he tried to set the record straight about such uncomfortable topics as the Checkers speech and his role in the Alger Hiss case. "The fact that Bush is apparently structuring his memoir around a number of key decisions that he made, to me strikes a similar chord with Nixon's approach," Coffey says. "I don't imagine that Bush is pondering some kind of comeback in the political sphere, but I think...
...Bank stock bulls rest much of their case on the fact the write-offs at financial firms are slowing and the Fed is putting enough money into the credit system to restart the normal cycle of borrowing and lending. That may well be true. Those pushing bank stocks as a great investment would also say that, even though a stock like Citigroup (C) has had a great run, it is down 90% from its 52-week high. That makes it a bargain...
...piece of common knowledge: Bolaño is dead. When the award was presented to the translator, Natasha Wimmer, the author himself was a thoughtless corpse decomposing in his lime-strewn grave.Awards should be given to the best book. I don’t dispute that. And in the case of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as I’ve already stated, I have no real problem with its awarding. Yet I can’t help but feel that there is something backward-looking about even giving an award to a dead man. Yes, the work should...
...back a year after he punched his fifth grade art teacher. He has no friends. In truth, it’s hard for him to communicate with people at all. When vandalism strikes the local retirement home, Genie’s grandmother hires him for his first paying detective case. The plot is the stuff of a children’s chapter book, but “Huge” is nothing of the sort. For one, there’s something undeniably dark at work in Genie’s family dynamic. Genie’s older sister, Neecey...
...Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning category. While Ur adapted his course in the process of gaining Gen Ed approval, Anne Marie E. Calareso, program manager for General Education, said that the Gen Ed committee doesn’t really turn any courses away. “In the case where a course wouldn’t necessarily fit, we might talk with the faculty member about how to make it fit,” said Calareso who added that this might include more integrative web sites or museum visits. But Calareso noted that any changes to previously existing courses in their...