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...open our borders to the Brits, we also get Zadie Smith (On Beauty), who at 30 is probably her generation's consensus No. 1 seed, as well as Monica Ali (Brick Lane), 39, and David Mitchell (Black Swan Green), 37. And there are dozens of young mid-list talents at work who don't get as much press but probably should. Keep an eye on the painfully funny Sam Lipsyte and the eerily fantastical Kelly Link...
This time around, things are different, says Gordon. "Atlantic City wasn't ready," he says as he eats lunch at Evo, a white-linen restaurant at Trump Plaza that, Gordon observes, is a marked improvement over the joints he used to frequent in the mid-'90s. "Right now, Atlantic City is the same as Las Vegas was 15 years ago," he says. "This is as close as I've come to a sure thing. It's no gamble at all." Which is why he's betting the house...
While this will be its first trip to the U.S., Tesco travels pretty well. Since the mid-'90s, it has opened more than 800 overseas stores, almost all in Central Europe and Asia, and they now account for more than a fifth of Tesco's total sales. International sales soared 23% in the past fiscal year, more than twice the rate of sales growth in Britain, lifting Tesco's profits 17%, to $4 billion...
...Smiley’s plea agreement does not prevent the Justice Department from prosecuting Smiley in the future, should they learn of other thefts he committed. HCL will not release information on the five as yet unaccounted-for maps until it receives the Smiley maps after he is sentenced mid-September, Braindard said. At that time, HCL will list those maps on Web sites where stolen cultural properties are listed. It is “fairly certain” that the five maps are missing, rather than misplaced, Brainard said. “They’ve been removed from...
According to the Globe, President Ronald Reagan began the practice in the mid-1980s in order to increase executive authority. Since courts often look at a statute’s history to divine Congressional intent, Reagan reasoned that noting his thoughts on the law’s meaning could increase presidential influence over court rulings...