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...obvious and overwrought for good fiction. And so, all too often, political novels descend from satire into cheap farce. Such books can be entertaining and sometimes cathartic but usually not very nourishing. American Wife is something else entirely - the opposite of a political satire, in fact - with a languorous pace and a fierce literary integrity: Alice and Charlie are complete creations, unique in their humanity - Alice especially. She is the quirky and (usually) reliable narrator. This is the story of her inner life, a place that only fiction...
Like Cox, many Americans are desperate to get better gas mileage, feel frustrated with fuel prices and are impatient with the pace of auto-makers' change. "Toyota could produce this [plug-in hybrid] in a heartbeat, but they are just not there yet," says Charles Tonelli, owner of Westboro Toyota in Westboro, Mass., which performed Cox's Prius conversion and has a waiting list of 96 other customers who want the same service. (Click here to see what's involved in a conversion). In the meantime, non-profits like CalCars and Plug In America are lobbying for tax credits...
...three months ago, helped engineer a turnaround of the bank's retail business and lending to mid-sized businesses, Germany's famous Mittelstand that forms the backbone of its economy. Blessing, a hobby marathon runner who had hoped he would be able to rebuild Commerzbank at a less hectic pace, realized that in the current financial crisis the opportunity to take over rival Dresdner may not come again...
...alone reaching Gore's goal of 100% carbon-free electricity in a decade, will require sweeping changes in governmental policy - the kind of changes that can't be achieved with a narrow majority of Democrats. Greens will need to appeal to liberals, conservatives and everyone in between. But the pace of the 2008 election has showed that while Americans may increasingly agree that climate change is a problem, we're far from agreeing just what to do about it. It's a nice start, but we're not quite...
...many events do you think I should be working?" Obama says with a laugh when I ask him about the lackadaisical pace. Comparatively, I say, Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004 kept much brisker schedules; Kerry, who had named his running mate, John Edwards, weeks before the convention, spent the last week of the primaries hustling through a bus tour from Norfolk, Va., to Philadelphia and on to New York City, while Gore barnstormed across battleground states, doing a "handoff" in Michigan to the Clintons, who preceded him to the convention...