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...certainly found a way. If it were possible to calculate the frequency of mots justes in a piece of prose, Franzen's ranking would be through the roof. He puts up Updikean numbers. His writer's eye picks out the "chevroned metal floor" of a merry-go-round, and a man with a ponytail "as thick as a pony's tail." A cheap space heater is "a wattage hog with a stertorous fan and a grinning orange mouth." The California towhee, one of his favorite birds, is like "a friend whose energy and optimism had escaped the confines...
...places as diverse as India, Mexico and Thailand with one brushstroke, but the story on emerging markets generally goes something like this. As economies in certain countries (China, India) take off, others that are rich in natural resources (Brazil, Chile) get pulled along when commodity prices shoot through the roof. Meanwhile, as many countries undergo structural changes, like floating their currencies (South Korea, Indonesia), the idea of investing in places that come with some pretty scary memories (the 1980s Latin American debt defaults, the 1997 East Asian financial crisis) becomes remarkably more palatable...
Sometimes impromptu screenings become institutions themselves. In 1997, New York City filmmaker Mark Elijah Rosenberg set up a 16-mm projector and a white sheet on the roof of his East Village apartment building and began screening short films. A decade later, RoofTop Films has evolved into a full-scale, summer-long festival, with submissions from around the world. This year the event will screen 48 independent films at various locations--all of them under the stars...
...Well done," says Kirkman. "That's the kind of energy we need." Now for "the Hallelujah Chorus moment": The rightful king-let him forthwith be crowned. Fifty voices, aged from 17 to 81, raise the roof...
...around 500 people still living in Dibil, some of whose population once fought Hizballah guerrillas alongside Israeli forces occupying south Lebanon before 2000. Most of them have moved into the center of this hillside village, around the pretty church with its honey-colored stone walls and red tiled roof, hoping that Israel's anger toward the Shi'ite Hizballah will pass them by. "We are putting our faith in our Lord," says a tired, haggard-looking Father Yussef Nadaf, the priest of Dibil...