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...enamored with "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus; September 4), giving it a starred, boxed review, its highest accolade. "FORECAST: The allure of 'The Virgin Suicides,' in book and movie form, has created a ready-made audience for Eugenides' long-awaited second novel. 'Middlesex' more than delivers, and its publication will be a genuine publishing event, including a 10-city author tour. A novel starring a hermaphrodite on bestseller lists? Stranger things have happened...
...focal point for his sprawling, gorgeous epic, Faber, like Dickens or Hardy, explores an era's secrets and social hypocrisy...A marvelous story of erotic love, sin, familial conflicts and class prejudice, this is a deeply entertaining masterwork that will hold readers captive until the final page. FORECAST: Harcourt executive editor Ann Patty calls this 'the first great 19th-century novel of the 21st century,' and she's right: it's just the sort of gorgeous Dickensian doorstopper that serious readers will cozy up with as the fall winds start blowing." Author tour...
Despite a tradition of sunny weather on Commencement, the National Weather Service has forecast a 70 percent chance of showers until early this afternoon...
...source of growth in South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. In Taiwan, HSBC estimates, private-consumption expenditure, which grew just 1.4% last year, will post a more respectable 3.8% growth in 2002. Moreover, construction is booming in Thailand and South Korea. Some countries--notably South Korea, whose forecast growth of more than 6% this year makes it the region's star--have introduced tax reforms to encourage consumer spending, and others are pumping up demand with public expenditure. But the key driver of the recovery is easy money. Interest rates remain low, credit demand is up, and banks...
...source of growth in South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. In Taiwan, HSBC estimates, private-consumption expenditure, which grew just 1.4% last year, will post a more respectable 3.8% growth in 2002. Moreover, construction is booming in Thailand and South Korea. Some countries - notably South Korea, whose forecast growth of more than 6% this year makes it the region's star - have introduced tax reforms to encourage consumer spending, and others are pumping up demand with public expenditure. But the key driver of the recovery is easy money. Interest rates remain low, credit demand is up, and banks...