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Easterbrook is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the new book The Progress Paradox (Random House; 376 pages...
...political events of 2004 may have nothing to do with the presidential election. It's the arrival of Bill Clinton's memoirs. The ex president is trying to finish his book in the next four months so it can be published at midyear. The book, to be published by Random House, will be the story of his life through his tumultuous presidency. Insiders say that it will have plenty of score settling with what his wife called the "vast right-wing conspiracy" but that it will also have quite a bit about his Arkansas boyhood...
...released statement Coca-Cola has said that the allegations are “completely false…nothing more than a shameless effort to generate publicity.” The bottlers also deny any involvement in the killings, although one wonders why random paramilitary groups would go around the country murdering union leaders against the wishes of the companies they are seeking contracts from. Union leaders such as Adolfo Munera, who just a week after winning a case in Colombia’s highest court forcing a Coke bottler to re-hire him after he was cleared of bogus criminal...
According to Summers, from “a very large group of very strong students,” he made choices “at random, just assuring that there’s a range of perspectives” in the class...
...story Henry Grunwald tells in his novel A Saint, More or Less (Random House; 234 pages) is a bit more complicated. It's based on an actual historical incident. Around 1594, a young woman of mysterious origins named Nicole Tavernier arrived in Paris and rapidly acquired a reputation for extraordinary faith and mystical healing powers. In a matter of weeks she had been taken up by the aristocracy, enjoyed an audience with the archbishop and organized a grand religious procession through the city...