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...important - an author's last wishes or the pull of literary posterity. Will next year's tentative release of David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, for example - just a year and a half after the writer's suicide last September - ensure his spot in the pantheon of great 20th century authors? Or will it simply prove to be exactly what it is - an imperfect, unfinished work? Still, at least Wallace has his editor, and his agent, and his wife to care for his interests...
...wouldn't want to have in a mate. The book is filled with other women's stories of rejection as well. I interviewed a lot of single women, and I kept hearing the same story. "Oh, we were dating three months, six months, a year. Everything was going great. I met his family, he loved my friends, I thought we were going to get married. And then he just ended it. For no reason he just ended it." I heard that over and over, and I thought, We need to find out why that happens. So I interviewed a bunch...
...Have you gotten married since then? No. Not for lack of trying. I'm looking. But the great thing about coming to this place in my life and coming through this whole journey is that my life is so happy and good now, and so many great things came out of it, that if I find a husband now - and I hope I do - it's just going to be icing on the cake...
...Mart is doing so well. But, Wal-Mart is the exception to the rule. Sam Walton's company continues do well because its tremendous buying power, distribution, and brand allows it to attract customers who get relatively high quality products for very little money. Its success removes a great deal of the foot traffic from the rest of the industry. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
President Barack Obama isn't as great as he thinks he is. To be fair, neither were Presidents Bush or Clinton - or Washington or Lincoln, for that matter. The same can be said for every general who ever commanded an army or every boss who ever ran an office. The fact is, if there's one thing that defines people in powerful positions, it's that they overestimate what they can do with that power...