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Are other nations as obsessed with their own pop-culture refuse as we are? I don't know. I think it may be an American curse in some ways. I'm just going to talk through my hat because I have no actual information for you, but maybe it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelist Jonathan Lethem | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

"The World," I repeated. Again he nodded, this time rolling his eyes slightly. He tried distracting me, asking me if I wanted to visit the Ali bin Abi Taleb mosque or ogle the colossal white yachts lining the waterfront like beached Moby Dicks. I pointed out our route - down the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Five-Star Ghost Town at the End of 'The World' | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

He pointed to the proliferation of financial engineering techniques—such as credit derivatives and credit default swaps—as methods of “taking bad paper and making it look like good paper.”

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Volcker Criticizes Financial Engineering | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

At the end Cata showed me the results from the last tournament and there they were, Harvard PJ, to be facing Emory IW in the seventh round. I pointed and Cata nodded and said, “PJ, isn’t that a great name? Alex and Eli, you...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Date With Debate | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

Is there one Administration that sticks out as being more secretive than any other? All of them are secretive. All of them. But I think we got a lot more out of President Kennedy and especially President [Lyndon] Johnson. He would summon us - the entire press corps - to the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Legend Helen Thomas | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

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