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Cities and novelists seem to have a special, symbiotic relationship. No other literary form can render a city as richly as the novel can, and probably no other setting--sprawling, crisscrossed with relationships, randomly cruel and beautiful--better suits the novel's strengths. Certainly, masterpieces have been written about smaller communities, but the correspondence between city and novelist is unique, and so it is that we refer to Dickens' London, Balzac's Paris, Joyce's Dublin...
Despite his shake-up, Johnson oversees a solid operation filled with top portfolio managers. And even as new stars such as Robert Stansky, who took over Magellan, hunker down to chase the Dow, Johnson is orchestrating a three-tiered expansion plan that he hopes will render the vicissitudes of the stock market less meaningful. Part of it involves boosting Fidelity's subsidiary businesses, which range from newspapers (Fidelity owns 117 of them) to limousines and software...
...last question, I have concluded, is important enough to render all the others somewhat trivial--and it's a question those at Harvard don't ask nearly enough...
Terrorism will not be defeated by taking more defensive measures, whether screening airline baggage more carefully or closing off Pennsylvania Avenue. If we are serious about fighting terrorism, we should increase our intelligence capabilities to infiltrate terrorist groups and render them ineffective, and we should, in concert with other nations, severely punish outlaw nations that sponsor and train terrorists. STEVEN J. WANGSNESS Seattle...
King Solomon, in his wisdom, would listen to the details of each dispute, carefully weigh the competing interests and then render a decision perfectly tailored to the circumstances. Great king. Lousy judge--at least by the lights of Justice Antonin Scalia...