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Figuring out exactly what's happening and then reacting accordingly falls to the European Central Bank and its president, Jean-Claude Trichet. The bank has been nervous about inflation all year, but earlier this month it slashed its lending rates by 0.5% to 3.75% as part of a coordinated rate...
Author Beth Teitell has decided to take on the malady that often afflicts American women: "Fear of looking our age." Teitell, who is 47 ("the youngest I'll ever be again in my life") and writes regularly for the Boston Globe, spent a year exploring the American obsession with youth...
Another October prize went to Kris Haines, 24, for his piece "The Obvious Child," in the "Brush With Fame" category. Haines wrote about his childhood obsession with the singer Paul Simon, and the star's enduring influence in his life. When Haines was a young, handicapped boy Simon took an...
I don’t like jeans. Call me unpatriotic, but when Levi Strauss invented the blue jean, I don’t think comfort was at the front of his mind. Being a history concentrator, I’m going to bring some historical perspective into this. When Straus...
Football, sanity, and sex are the three biggest players on the field in Matthew Quick’s “The Silver Linings Playbook.” Quick tells his tale from the perspective of Pat Peoples, a 34-year-old man who has just been released from a...