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Betsy generally speaks fast, too fast, almost. She fiddles with pens or anything nearby, really. But when Betsy is in character, she speaks slowly, pensively, with intent. She leans forward and scrunches her eyebrows together. What she says carries weight in the imaginary universe of Dungeons & Dragons, and the players...
Ken Feinberg is a close talker. Feinberg, a lawyer who in June was named the Treasury Department's special master for executive compensation, starts his sentences about 18 inches from your face and, with a thick Boston accent, leans in to make his point.
In the midst of the newly rekindled debate, two excellent biographies have just been published: Ayn Rand and the World She Made, by Anne C. Heller (Doubleday; 592 pages), is a comprehensive study, in novelistic detail, of Rand's personal life, and Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the...
There's no quick or easy answer to that question. Violence will ebb over the winter, and perhaps a political accommodation between the government and main opposition party - or indeed with the Taliban - will help in Kabul. But as fighting starts to heat up again next spring, and the U.S...
But the brunt of China's statement was aimed at the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), not the Ma administration. "Some DPP members have taken the chance to plot the Dalai Lama's visit to Taiwan," Xinhua reported. "Obviously this is not for the sake of disaster relief. It's...