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...just 40 days in the voice of the murderous servant. Back then, Adiga had just resigned from his job as a New Delhi correspondent for TIME, and he was writing with a sense of freedom that he said came from the fact that he had "nothing to lose." He has often been plagued by self-doubt, he told me, but he wrote The White Tiger in a state of calm and happiness, knowing even then that he was creating "something special...
...also help to consider what you will do if you do lose everything. Literally, what will you do first, second and third? Contemplating action can shrink the threat to life size and introduce new possibilities. "We become very attached to our mentally constructed future," says Forsyth. "The harder you hold on to your story about your future, the harder this will...
...only are there social benefits we’d lose, opportunities for learning and exchanging knowledge would also be diminished. If it weren’t for the drunk e-mail, I wouldn’t understand life the way I do today. With Mail Goggles, my roommate’s opus on the meaning of universe would never have found its way to my inbox. For one, math is not her strength. And for two, she might have paused and thought, “Is this really something I want to send out to half of my address book...
...well and how quickly the new programs translate into confidence - meaning renewed lending by and among banks - will determine how badly the real economy is hit: how many people will lose their jobs, how many businesses will close, how many banks will fail. Everyone from Paulson on down acknowledges that those numbers will rise dramatically in the coming months. But the latest plan is meant to lessen the impact. As Paulson said this morning, "Today's actions are not what we ever wanted to do, but today's actions are what we must do to restore confidence in our financial...
...angry, got excited, had nothing to lose, and came out and played the way we know how to play,” McKinley said of the Crimson resurgence...