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Margaret Atwood has worn many literary hats - novelist, poet, essayist, critic, historian - but now she has added another one: orator. Her latest book, Payback: Debt as Metaphor and the Shadow Side of Wealth, isn't just her first nonfiction book not about literature; it's also a series of speeches. Atwood has turned Payback into a Canadian Broadcast Corporation Massey Lecture Series, in which she explores debt as a cultural construct, from favor-trading in chimpanzee societies to, well, favor-trading among the Corleone clan in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. This is not a book about...
...with Crichton standing the tallest.The kid known as tallest in class would graduate from Harvard Medical School and become known for writing best-selling science fiction novels on topics ranging from dinosaurs recreated from DNA to extraterrestrial spherical artifacts, eventually emerging as a strident popular critic of the science behind global warming. Crichton died unexpectedly after a private battle against throat cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 66.Esherick, who had not seen Crichton for a decade, said he heard the news on the radio yesterday morning and that he had been unaware of Crichton’s illness.Esherick...
...grossing documentary and a sticking point of the 2004 presidential campaign, is the author of the New York Times best-selling Mike's Election Guide 2008 and star of the feature documentary Slacker Uprising, available for free download at www.slackeruprising.com. He also runs the website www.michaelmoore.com. TIME's film critic Richard Corliss caught up with Moore via e-mail on Sunday...
...from the President of the Palestinian National Authority. Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, once condemned Israel as a “dirty word.” A Los Angeles Times article from April asserts that Obama’s close connection with Rashid Khalidi, a critic of Israeli policy and professor of arab studies at Columbia University, “has led some Palestinian leaders to believe that he might deal differently with the Middle East than his opponents for the White House,” however pro-Israel Obama continues to be. The article suggests...
...might be a sunbeam that sweetly anoints a full dish rack on a white sink. There might also be a dismal suburban tract house or a bunch of plastic bottles scattered across a dirt road. It was a make-of-it-what-you-will exhibition, and a lot of critics didn't know what to make of it. The Times critic called it "perfectly boring...