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...deadbeat parents were not bad enough. Now aggravated spouses have a new gripe: profiteering companies that offer to help chase down the more than $89 billion in child-support payments that American parents have failed to make. Deadbeat bounty hunting is a small but growing field. There are at least 38 private businesses, up from a smattering a decade ago. The biggest of them, Supportkids, has 30,000 open cases and has collected more than $120 million from deadbeats since it was founded 11 years ago. But it has also kept $40 million for itself, which raises the question...
...Sopranos has been called the best TV drama ever and the greatest work of American pop culture in 25 years. So naturally its creator, David Chase, wants to pull the plug on it next year. Why? "I'm just concerned," he says, "about this jump-the-shark thing...
...longer want allies or institutions, but only volunteers for posses to chase various gangs of bandits." That was not what I expected to hear from a former European Union Commissioner who is now chairman of one of Europe's leading corporations, but it perfectly captures the growing alienation from America that was constantly expressed to me during a recent swing through the major European capitals. What a contrast to the Le Monde headline proclaiming "We Are All Americans" in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Eleven months later, sympathy for the victims remains, but the American image...
...begins a tale in Haruki Murakami's After the Quake, a collection of six stories set in Japan immediately following the 1995 earthquake that ravaged the city of Kobe and gave a psychic jolt to the entire nation. In Murakami's novels, including A Wild Sheep Chase and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, a normal guy often experiences a life-changing event, usually with the help of some fantastical device. Ultimately, his struggle is psychological, and so it is in these short stories. Katagiri, for instance, needs giant insects to help him realize he must battle his personal frustrations before...
...tradition was begun in 1938 by A. S. Gisbert, a Kuala Lumpur-based British expat. Inspired by paper chase clubs he had first seen in action while stationed in Malacca, Gisbert persuaded his colleagues to "hunt" with him, on foot rather than horseback. Gisbert, as the hare, would mark long, meandering trails through the brush with chalk arrows and piles of flour. The hounds or "harriers," would set off soon after, in hopes of "capturing" the hare before he finished the trail. The reward at the end of the run, whether or not the hare was caught, was cold beer...