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...themes of redemption in Christian theology) to literature--where Atwood realizes that debt drives many a plot (Vanity Fair, A Christmas Carol). And what happens when, she asks, "people don't pay their debts? Or can't pay their debts? Or won't pay their debts?" In the answers lie all the woes of humankind: crime, slavery, war, poverty, revenge, environmental destruction. Atwood admits she's no expert on the subject, but the delight of Payback is in watching a gifted storyteller discover--with impeccable timing--one of her most universal narratives...
Silence. Dead silence. This is bad. What's going on? Have Martians invaded Earth? Can't be, right? But it's on the radio, and the radio doesn't lie. Is that smoke I smell? Why is old lady Johnson screaming next door? Holy hell...
...outside world, this tiny archipelago nation of some 300,000 people exists mostly in ads for sun-dappled luxury holidays. The Maldives lie southeast of India, a jumble of nearly 20,000 idyllic islands and azure lagoons nestled in coral atolls (a word for reef formations which came to English, fittingly, from Dhivehi, the local Maldivian tongue). Gayoom, 71, is chiefly responsible for building up the lucrative tourism sector - which has fast become the country's leading industry, ahead of its traditional fisheries. It has made Maldivians - at least statistically - the most affluent people in South Asia, and the country...
...name of (Hermann) Goering said that the Jews were responsible for all the misery the Germans was having. One lie. And that lie caught on. And before it was all over, 6 million of them died." - Kilpatrick's father, Bernard, a former county commissioner, comparing his son's persecution in the local media to Nazi propaganda. He later apologized. (The Detroit News...
...faculty.“The timidity of Harvard students in this regard is really astonishing to me. Thoughtful students know they are being short-changed,” Wisse said. “Where is the backbone of that part of the student body that knows where its responsibilities lie and does not rise to the occasion?”—Staff writer Nini S. Moorhead can be reached at moorhead@fas.harvard.edu...