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...tireless and outspoken critic of government waste and intervention, Durst routinely purchased space on the front page of the New York Times to run what he liked to call "bottom lines" - rants that ran along the bottom of the page like stock tickers. His haiku-esque May 26, 1991 message: "Federal debt soaring, national economy shrinking, soon the twain shall meet." In 1980, before technology could support a debt clock, he mailed handwritten holiday cards to dozens of congressmen that read: "Happy New Year. Your share of the national debt is $35,000." When technology finally caught up with...
...Gist: There's something about film critics (or maybe all critics, or possibly just people who like things) that makes them susceptible to the lure of lists. Top Ten Films of All Time, Top 14 Movie Villains, Top 25 Serbian Horror Flicks-the combinations are endless. In his latest, Have You Seen...?, film critic and historian David Thomson, author of the singular The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, delivers a binding-busting list of one thousand flicks you need to check out. Not that he likes-or even respects-all of these movies. Rather, he writes, "This is a book...
...Paul Krugman, a professor at Princeton University and Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times, was named the 2008 recipient of the Nobel Prize for economics. Krugman is perhaps best known as a scathing critic of the Bush Administration, which he has accused of everything from mishandling foreign policy to promoting a fiscal strategy that caused the economic crisis gripping the country. But the economist - whom the Nobel committee recognized for his "analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity," which helps explain why certain countries excel in international trade - has long been considered one of the brightest...
...Shadow,” people “mistook” it for a horror novel. Later you were taken for a fantasy or science fiction writer. In past interviews you have said that you are trying to resist classification. What do you think about that?Jonathan Carroll: Critics and people who run bookstores like to classify things because it makes their jobs easier: Put this in the mainstream section. This is a fantasy novel, etc. Whenever people ask what “kind” of books I write I usually smile and say “mixed salads...
...saints in China, naming 87 Chinese citizens and 33 foreign missionaries who had died in the country between 1648 and 1930. He also named the first saint from Brazil, home to more Catholics than any other country. Many within the Catholic church disapproved of the mass canonizations, which one critic calling the pope's actions "Vatican marketing decisions...