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...Reading Edmund Wilson gives you the pleasure of accompanying a first-rate intellectual explorer as he embarks on a ceaseless quest to learn new things (and to tweak old friends: "I hope you are not one of those dreadful liberals who are rooting for the downfall of [Senator Joseph] McCarthy," he writes to the once radical and by then notoriously reactionary John Dos Passos). While his familial relations, highlighted here, can sometimes be off-putting (one wonders if the letters included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part...
...were the only fully dressed person in a nudist camp. Thank you, Jean-Marie, for this moment of solitude. I am a kind of universal idiot; the boob who believed it. Believed in what? That I was going to become rich, powerful, partake in the absolute quest of human happiness - one attainable with the laws of the triumphant market. Or better yet, that I'd become a little bit like Jean-Marie Messier myself. Why not give it a try? For more than a year, I only wore socks with holes in them, just like Jean-Marie. I also ridiculously...
...turn into a double-time retreat. THE BOURSE Zero Sum Game? General Motors and Ford reintroduced 0% loans to keep cars selling. But with incentives already averaging over $2,000 a vehicle, it's difficult to see how they'll make money on the deal. The End Of The Quest Qwest, which filed for bankruptcy in May, began switching off its 10,000-km Ebone Internet network after its sale collapsed. The closure affects thousands of customers across Europe. Ready, set, postpone Yell, the directory business valued at $3.5-$4.3 billion, and Focus Wickes, the retailer worth $1.5-$1.8 billion...
House minority leader Dick Gephardt, in his quest to win back Democratic control this fall, has done 53 fund raisers in 41 cities this year, raising about $20 million for his party and making wealthy friends from coast to coast. (Senate majority leader Tom Daschle is keeping up a similar pace.) Last December, Gephardt left Washington during a busy congressional session to fly to Los Angeles and present the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Liberty and Justice Award to money magnet Barbra Streisand and then hopped a red-eye back to breakfast with President Bush...
...Does the old woman know of Baan Yandee? "Of course," she replies. "It's the village where Jau Phaendin was born." My wife explains her quest and the woman leads us through a maze of backstreets to a house with a handsome Dai roof, crouched in the shadows of tiled apartment blocks. We knock, and a man named Saengau answers the door with a scowl that fades as Sawitree explains her story. "Come in, come in," he smiles, calling his wife. They were once dancers at the King's palace, Saengau explains, and he is related to Jau Phaendin. "Very...