Word: costelloism
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...Treasurer Peter Costello knows the issue isn't just on the minds of parents. Last week, on the Liberal-led government's 10th anniversary, and in the run-up to the May Budget, he raised many families' pulses by promising to make Australia "the most female-friendly environment in the world," and hinted at increased spending on child care and more flexible work practices. If he delivers, there'll be ovations from families whose frustrated calls for fresh approaches to the issue - such as making fees tax deductible and giving tax breaks to employers who help provide care - are rapidly...
...merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith launched an assault on the waterfront unions, there was a certain bloodlust. In pursuing a new tax system, with its 10% goods and services tax, a diligent and obstinate Treasurer Peter Costello lost his youth and much of his spark. Howard's way may have been austere and divisive, especially for someone who was governing "for all of us," but it was not indiscriminate...
...cusp of retirement when he loses a leg in a bicycle accident. Depressed in the prison of his apartment, he falls for his immigrant Croatian nurse. The idyll is interrupted by the arrival on his doorstep of the title character from Coetzee's previous novel, Elizabeth Costello. An aging novelist of dwindling talent (a courageous invention for an aging novelist like Coetzee), she is determined to shake Rayment from his lethargy and have him for herself. She takes over his life, threatening his romance and his sanity. Rayment laments that he "never knows, with the Costello woman, when...
...Exactly. The whole exercise seems contrived, and Coetzee has set the story in Australia, where he now lives. Let's hope some Elizabeth Costello takes control of his life and returns him to South Africa to find his inspiration. But lalela - listen. The man has fought the good fight - for literature and humanitarian values - in novels like Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K, as well as in savannahs of trenchant nonfiction. Who would begrudge him a little diversion? André Brink might. He too championed the anti-apartheid cause, paid his dues, had his works banned...
...JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER 212-258-9800; jalc.org New Orleans native Wynton Marsalis and Elvis Costello headline a Sept. 17 benefit concert that will air live...