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...blast, it was like writing poetry instead of prose. There were so many rules for what I was doing intentionally wrong. For example, I couldn't use the prefix un- - unhappy, unconscious. With Pygmy it was no happy or no conscious. I found myself saying no conscious a lot. You end up internalizing all that language and it lingers in your head and alters the way you think about things. It allows me to make very ordinary, everyday things like Wal-Mart and megachurches and high schools that much more fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Chuck Palahniuk | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...which gives a one-page summary of credit-card terms in a font size dictated by the Federal Government (it needs to be large enough to catch your attention). Credit-card statements that were a page long in the early 1980s now easily run to 30. That's a lot of information. And yet America's overreliance on consumer debt has happened anyway. Why? Disclosure itself may not be enough considering the well-entrenched forms of human thinking we're dealing with. "There have been a lot of disclosure policies over the past 20 years, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Problem with Credit Cards: The Cardholders | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

...became a non-event, because an initiative that corresponded to the very logic and mission of the European Union itself became undermined by a lot of political factors," says Liberti. "Just as people now tend to view E.U. enlargement as a mistake - rather than examine the errors made in managing it - leaders have gotten shy about the Eastern Partnerships over how it might look, rather than what it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U. Backtracks on its Eastern European Partners | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...policy created an environment in which social groups were hesitant to hold social events—which I think was problematic to college life,” UC president Andrea R. Flores ’10 said. “I’m happy that a lot of UC members worked to clarify it.” —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Bita M. Assad can be reached at bassad@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: CHL Debuts Revised Amnesty Policy | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...wrapping up the race almost 10 seconds behind first-place Brown at 5:56.657. The 3V came in at 6:03.246, good enough to take second, but was no match for an overwhelming Wisconsin boat that crossed the finish line at 5:57.455.“There are a lot of guys in the third and foruth boats that could easily step up in the first and second boats,” Schreck said. “It’s nice to have guys who can push each other all the time.”The freshman heavyweights also...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Boats Settle for Second in Worcester | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

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