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...Abram identifies the charms behind the quirky habits and speech, and finds himself forced to hide his contentment with the place and its people from his wife - whose anti-Ch'ti bigotry inspires loving appreciation for her husband's self-sacrifice in enduring a solitary life in White Trash Central...
...designed the flashlights himself - even making one model in pink, to discourage men from seizing the products from women. (They wouldn't want to be seen with the feminine-looking lights.) But he ran into a problem: unlike kerosene lamps, which can be hung over a table to spread central light, Bent's BOGOs couldn't illuminate an entire room. This was an engineering challenge, but having already sunk $250,000 of his own money into SunNight, Bent didn't have much left over for research and development. "I could have hired 10 engineers and put them...
...Master, filling Memorial Church with Harvard alumni, Classics Department affiliates, and Lowell notables. Stewart, who passed away on December 1 at the age of 86, was praised for his 12 years of service as a house master, his five-year term as chair of the Classics Department, and his central role in reviving Harvard University Press’s Classical Library, which publishes English translations of Greek and Latin texts. But Stewart’s record of humility and caring for those who ranked lower than him—what his daughter, Sarah B. Stewart, called...
...Japan (LDP), which controls the lower house, and the DPJ, whose members won a surprise majority in the upper house in elections last July. With Fukui's departure looming, politicians have been unable to reach agreement on a successor, with some DPJ lawmakers saying they prefer former deputy Central Bank governor Yutaka Yamaguchi. Business leader Mikio Wakatsuki, chairman of AXA Life Insurance of Japan, told reporters this week that it was "a national disgrace that this issue remains unresolved...
...lawmaker Masaharu Nakagawa, the DPJ's finance spokesman and a member of the lower house budget committee, says his party is not about to roll over. Nakagawa says he favors a central banker who has shown leadership, not someone who consistently engages in "consensus making." Muto is scheduled to be questioned in parliament on March 11. The clock is ticking...