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...ever received from Chais, did not mention Madoff but just that "the relevant brokers" had been notified, as if there were others besides Madoff - which there were not, as we all learned six months later. It certainly didn't mention that Chais was just pretending to be the great Wizard of Wall Street. He did, however, make it clear that anyone was "free to withdraw part or all of their money" at quarterly withdrawal dates, which was a nice, reassuring touch. Giving more comfort, Chais rather breezily wrote that everything would be fine, that his son, a lawyer by training...
...natural bent” towards puzzles, and that “good crossword puzzlers know a little bit about everything.” Regarding Sudoku and kenken, Shortz’s newest obsession, he said, “I love the simplicity of the instructions and the great depth of techniques to solve them. Each still has a mystery to it and that’s nice...
Read first-hand accounts of the Great Depression from the people who lived through...
...It’s great news,” Donahue said. “We’ve had parents borrowing from [MEFA] for many years, and obviously it’s been a difficult year for loans nationwide...
Damrosch says he loves to find unexpected connections between distant writers. The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh, a recent publication that was his first book for a popular audience, called on the examination of cultural linkages as a response to the Iraq War. “I was impatient with the loose talk about a clash of civilizations,” he says. “I show that if you go back far enough, there is one civilization...