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...good strategy, Perle discovered when her husband walked out with all the family finances in his name. In the aftermath, Perle was forced to confront her fiscal shortcomings. "Disappointments, reversals, divorce or death have taught us that we have to take direct responsibility for our financial lives," she writes...
...other end of the modernist spectrum is the bomb, and when Alice flies to Japan to meet up with her mentor, she is forced to confront its legacy. Visiting the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, she is stopped in her tracks not by the wall clock frozen forever at 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, or the array of appalling statistics (73,884 dead), but a single written testimonial which makes time cease for her: "From the window I saw my mother in the garden, picking aubergines for our lunch. She burst into flames." Jones' novel works in much...
...school, everything is plain, and in real life, sometimes it’s very different,” Elbegdorj said. “In real life, you confront real problems, real challenges...
...Predictably, news of the tapes consumed the front pages of the major dailies and set the cable chat shows buzzing, as Americans once again were forced to confront the unhappy fact that the globe?s most infamous sociopath is, regrettably, still alive and kickin? it somewhere in Southeast Asia. Or the Middle East. Or China. Or, hey, the guy may be wintering in Boca for all U.S. intelligence forces seem to know...
...each case, I wrote about them more just to get it out of me. I got a lot of letters that said, You should write more serious stuff. My reaction was, I don't want to. I wrote serious things because really bad things happened that forced me to confront them. I don't want to write about really bad things. I want to write about funny things...