Word: demandingness
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When Harvard’s future dean of admissions and financial aid was applying to the College in 1962, the first two teachers he asked for letters of recommendation refused. “They wouldn’t write for Harvard because they thought it was a bunch of Communists...
Jhumpa Lahiri's stories reveal their intentions with a stately slowness that is starting to seem distinctly 20th century. Her writing is completely free of humor or cleverness. It's almost totally devoid of narrative suspense. In the title story of her new collection, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH (Knopf; 333 pages), a...
That bleak reality has some observers, such as Alex de Waal, program director at the Social Science Research Council in New York, wondering whether Darfur, in particular, will be a high water mark for the idea of an "international responsibility to protect." Says de Waal: "For complex peacekeeping operations to...
Last Thursday, Rendell, South Carolina's Sanford and the governors of Delaware, Nevada and Arizona held a heated conference call with Chertoff to air their complaints. And that same day, the National Governors Association sent letters to President Bush, the House and Senate leadership and congressional appropriators demanding: "If the...
Nevertheless, all those mortgages that started the problem are still worth something. House prices are headed downward, but they're not headed to zero. What turned a simple price decline into a crisis that killed Bear Stearns was the way many financial firms (hedge funds and investment banks, especially) generate...