Word: epicent
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...Given Day By Dennis Lehane; out now Wait, what is Lehane's name doing on a 700-page epic about union politics, a flu epidemic, immigration, baseball, an Irish cop and a black fugitive in Boston in 1919? He's gone big and literary on us, and the results are part home run and part homework. But he hasn't forgotten where he came from: there's great pulp storytelling in here...
...most popular President in a half-century. The oil find could make Brazil one of the world's largest crude producers, but even without that bounty, the economy has been growing as vigorously as a guava tree in the Amazon rain forest, allowing Brazil to start reducing its epic social inequality. Economic strength has also allowed the country to flex its diplomatic clout as the hemisphere's first real counterweight to the U.S. Lula led the creation of a bloc of developing nations, the G-20, to thwart U.S. and European hegemony in global trade talks. "I believe implicitly that...
That's the case with Miracle at St. Anna, an unwieldy epic that leapfrogs four decades and two continents while trying to cram the undertold history of black soldiers in World War II into a fable of the friendship between an Italian boy and his "chocolate giant." At more than 2 1/2 hours, it's a mess, but it's got battle scenes that thrill and horrify and a brilliantly choreographed slaughter of Italian innocents; the title could have been Massacre at St. Anna...
...entangle the Ibis? Or will it be a mutiny of disgruntled migrants? Or what about the machinations of a mysterious ex-pirate from Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority, whose betel-stained gums and drooping mustache make him look "like some bloodthirsty Tartar of the steppes"? Wherever Ghosh's Asian epic may turn, readers can rest assured there are few better navigators to guide...
...economic meltdown, the government is forced to buy up billions of dollars worth of bad assets - raising taxes to pay for the program - as citizens seethe. That's the U.S., today. But the prequel to Nightmare on Wall Street occurred more than a decade ago in Japan, when epic real estate and stock-market bubbles burst - making it all the more remarkable that some of the international companies now prowling for bargains among the remains of battered U.S financial institutions are based in Tokyo...