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...helped prosecutors push ahead with the arrests of various businessmen and officials in the construction industry. Says Princeton's Calder: "This is Japan's perestroika. Hosokawa is short- circuiting the nomenklatura of the nokyo, the Construction and Agriculture ministries and the L.D.P." Even perestroika all but foundered in a rough economy, though, and Hosokawa is likely to find extensive deregulation too disruptive a course for an economy mired in tough times...
Gray thinks that Proulx's highest gift is for comedy, and he may be right. Or it may be that the darker early stories (collected as Heart Songs) and Postcards are simply too rough to be read comfortably. But The Shipping News is funnier and kindlier than Proulx's other work -- not precisely light in tone, the author says wryly, but "light blue." Though the commotion of being abruptly famous feels "like I've backed into some bizarre machinery," her professional life is blissful now. This is not so much due to the shelfful of literary prizes she has collected...
These countries face far more chronic unemployment than the U.S., and double-digit jobless rates are common even in good years. Roughly half of those on the dole have been out of work for more than a year, as opposed to 6% in the U.S. The social-protection system designed to help people through the rough patches "suddenly is needed massively and for a long time by millions of jobless," says Lothar Stock, who heads a social-welfare organization in Frankfurt. "The system cannot cope with these new conditions...
...have a couple of Yale football players working for me, so if I bet against them they'll rough me up," he said...
...film, which Pacino called, "a very rough assembly" of the final product, were scenes of Pacino and Winona Ryder acting in Richard...