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After he struggled for two decades in the worlds of stand-up comedy, television and movies, Apatow's plugging away suddenly paid off: he broke out as the creator of a genre of foulmouthed straight-man-love movies - the bromance. The first movie he directed, 2005's The 40 Year...
I am a 27-year-old Spanish worker and I belong to "Generation Disappointment" [July 20]. I have a badly paid job which does not fit with either my studies or my expectations. The global crisis has hit Spain especially hard but we should have seen it coming. The Spanish...
As a teenager in California in the early 1970s, I remember my mother saying that we, her children, were part of the first "downwardly mobile" generation. When I asked her what she meant, she said that as she saw it, my generation would rent property and only some of us...
There is a catch, though. As Timbuktu opens to outsiders and word of its treasures spreads, so too does the interest in the books from outside collectors. In some ways, saving these old manuscripts could imperil them further. In decades past only the hardy visited Timbuktu; the journey required days...
And yet younger Malians, even in Ber, deep in Mali's remote north, are very different from their parents' generation. Few can read the manuscripts' old Arabic script, and some are beginning to ignore long-held taboos against selling them. When I visit Essayouti, Timbuktu's imam, at home, he...