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...idea for this book? When the Fight Club movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time. I needed something that would get me out of bed really early in the morning so I started volunteering at a homeless soup kitchen. People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things...
...Issue Set His party could be too. Hispanics, Asians and blacks are on track to be the majority in three decades; metropolitan voters and young voters who skew Democratic are also on the rise. This is why Rogers recently decided to quit being a talking head: "I had a meeting with myself, and I said, Do we really need more white lobbyists with gray hair on TV?" But it's not clear that more diverse spokesmen or better tweets can woo a new generation to the GOP; support for gay rights is soaring, and polls show that voters prefer Democratic...
...face of it, the two events might seem unconnected. After months of government criticism and a slew of ugly headlines, Daniel Bouton announced last week that he plans to quit as chairman of Société Générale, one of France's biggest banks. A day earlier, a meeting of shareholders in banking giant Fortis turned nasty when investors riled by the sale of ts recently nationalized Belgian banking arm lobbed shoes and other items at chairman Jozef De Mey. De Mey stood his ground, and won an eventual vote on the sale. But the twin...
...restart worldwide economic growth, followed by 10 equally convincing pages on the New Age of Extinction caused by worldwide growth of human activity, a deadly danger to many species, including our own. The clash of these two conflicting principles signals we are at a threshold: shouldn't we quit being obsessed by growth at any cost? Shouldn't we rather aim research, money and industry on how to achieve stable, balanced evolution? Nicolas Gessner, PARIS...
...page reappointment forms, written exams, blood tests, physicals. Every hospital we work in, every HMO we sign up with does this too. Every year. Every 10 years we have to take our boards again. (Imagine if lawyers had to pass the bar exam every decade until they quit.) And there are yearly federal and state licensures and safety exams, fire exams, infection-control exams, malpractice-insurance exams, queries about crimes we're assumed to have committed and disabilities we must prove we have not developed...