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...This past year the National Book Award celebrated its 60th anniversary by conducting a public poll to select the best work of fiction that had won the award. To make the short list for this poll, the National Book Foundation balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity?...
...cathedral has been on the list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites since 1979. Since then, active and consistent restoration efforts have rid most of the cathedral’s windows and stonework of grime buildup from the past centuries. In order to sustain the program, non-profit organizations like the American Friends of Chartres (AFC), based in New York, and its French counterpart, Chartres Sanctuaire du Monde (CSM), were founded to seek direct, mostly fiscal contribution to accelerate the process...
Most of the difficulty with retroactive restoration thus lies not in obtaining moral or financial support, but in dealing with ethical issues of authenticity and the redoing of misguided, past restorative efforts. However, Fozi says that such mistakes are due to the lack of scientific technology required to take on the delicate task of piecing together the original vision of the cathedral. Now with the availability of new and advanced techniques of handling stained glass, restorers can turn their focus to other ideological issues of restoration...
History has taught Greeks to be skeptical of promises of rescue by foreign powers, and the trail of failed plans to help Greece deal with its mountain of debt over the past few months has done little to assuage those fears. So despite the news Sunday, April 11, of a European bailout-loan offer worth some $40 billion, with the possibility of $20 billion more from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Greeks are growing increasingly pessimistic about their future. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Csaba argues, however, that Orban is in a strong position to make unpopular choices and survive. "Fidesz has made a transformation over the past two or three years into a mainstream conservative party," he says. "They are all about fiscal discipline. I don't think they will make a U-turn from the reform policies of the current government. They made no populist promises during the campaign. These [promises] were made by Jobbik...