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...During the boom years, banks lent vast sums of money to developers as property fever gripped the newly wealthy nation. But when the bubble burst with the global meltdown last year, these unpaid loans left huge holes in the banks' books and the liberal lending of the Celtic Tiger era came to an abrupt halt. To steady the ship, the government placed a blanket guarantee on deposits in six Irish banks last September. At the time, according to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, it was "the cheapest bailout in the world." But that claim soon came back to haunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Irish Angry Over Big Bailout of the Country's Banks | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

...city and some surrounding provinces are still underwater, and state-run hospitals have been overwhelmed by an outbreak of leptospirosis, a bacterial disease spread from the urine of infected rats and other animals. (In Sri Lanka, where there was a large outbreak in 2008, leptospirosis is known as "rat fever.") The bacterium is transmitted by the standing floodwater through cuts in the skin and by people swallowing contaminated water. This month's leptospirosis outbreak - the worst by far that doctors here can remember - has swollen the disaster's death toll, claiming 157 victims from mostly poor communities. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Manila, After the Floods, Battles 'Rat Fever' | 10/26/2009 | See Source »

Students also pointed out less extreme examples of fetishization, referring in particular to the phenomenon of “Yellow Fever...

Author: By BETH E. BRAITERMAN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Falling in Love with Hue | 10/22/2009 | See Source »

...Brooklyn or Queens you can have that feeling. And yet you also feel a sense of possession. It belongs to you; you're a New Yorker, you're entitled to it, but disenfranchised from it at the same time. I loved Manhattan in a very traditional Saturday Night Fever type of way. I just wanted to get there. And I did, for high school. I applied to this special arts high school and started taking the subway every day and suddenly Manhattan was mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

...ensuing preoccupation with Revie explains many of Clough’s actions throughout the rest of the film. Like Paul Ashworth in “Fever Pitch” (1997; not the Jimmy Fallon movie about the Red Sox), Clough is consumed by soccer to the detriment of his mental and physical health and the well-being of those around him. But the true emotional and thematic centerpiece of “The Damned United” is the relationship between Clough and his assistant manager, Peter Taylor (brilliantly played by Timothy Spall, best known for his role as Peter...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'The Damned United' | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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