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...Jimmy’s wise reflection, I would add this: Change becomes possible only when we find faith in something larger than ourselves. We’ve seen it in the Exodus of Jews from Egypt, in the flight of slaves from bondage, in the protests of workers and women, in Freedom Rides and peace marches. We felt it in the rebellious spirit of our founding mothers and fathers outside the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, and in the heroic resilience of Stonewall’s children in the face of AIDS and Reagan and “family values...
...paradigm, banking was, above all other things, safe. It presented an almost guaranteed path to respectability. While many professions such as acting, journalism, or academia offer considerable prizes at the top but little along the rest of the spectrum, banking promises to reward even the mediocre with top-flight compensation. More than anything it else, it can provide a refuge from the vicissitudes of fate or personal inadequacy...
...variety of factors are speeding a shakeout. They include falling oil prices and Russia's war with Georgia, which spooked foreign investors and sparked capital flight. Of course, the tumult on Wall Street and the general seizing up of global finance has caused a liquidity squeeze for banks worldwide. But the root cause of Russia's current crisis is homegrown: wannabe oligarchs who used debt to continue doubling down while the going was good, only to find themselves on shaky ground now that the market has turned. As one wag said this month, it's a case of minigarchs turning...
...final hours. Perhaps more than the non-fiction, the stories illustrate the author’s sociopathic lack of empathy. In “Last Days,” for instance, Atta is constipated. Because Atta was actually constipated in the days and hours before steering American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center? No. Because Amis wanted to make a point. In the story, Atta’s inability to shit stands in for his inability to attain spiritual satisfaction. It is only when he boards the plane and begins to feel the satisfaction...
...enduring Dick Cheney fantasy involving nuclear terrorism against civilian targets. She describes waterboarding as “drowning rational thought.” She gives Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) the title of “Dumbest Senator” and harps on the “crotch-hugging flight suit” Bush wore during his “Mission Accomplished speech.” She prints page after page of bolded names and events from the Bush years in block capitals, underscored by the words, “Had Enough Yet?”The catty invective suffuses...