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...Lamm abandoned politics to teach and write, returning to the stage for a brief and ignominious Senate race in 1992, in which he lost in the primary to Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Since then he has been a prophet with marginal honor in his own land, lecturing earnestly about the shame he feels at being part of the first generation that will not pay its own way. "We've got to stop bullshitting the public," he told TIME. "The economy of the '90s can't support the dreams...
...were executed. Pramoedya's response was to compose his novels orally and recite them to other prisoners. Eventually a sympathetic general allowed him paper and pen, and then a typewriter. From his own memory and what his prison mates could recall, he copied down the novels that would shame the Suharto dictatorship by taking on the name of its island prison and give the stubborn writer a reputation as Indonesia's Solzhenitsyn. And thus, so it is widely believed, make him Asia's leading candidate for a Nobel Prize...
...while his sculpted good looks, strong cheekbones and short, rumpled hair bring an unnerving purity to his appearance no matter how viscious his crimes. The audience immediately sides with Delon's Tom because though he lives on deceit, he lies the American way--with practice, with no shame or guilt, and with the conviction that he deserves the upward social mobility his crimes let him achieve...
Still, declarations of bankruptcy aren't free lunches. Bankruptcy judgments can blemish credit ratings for up to 10 years, boosting interest charges for new debts such as car loans and mortgages. And despite the lessening stigma, many people still cannot shed a sense of failure and shame. "You feel like s--- forever," says Anne, a saleswoman who changed jobs and moved to another state after declaring bankruptcy three years...
...balance the bright new equality envisaged by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with the "don't-give-a-damn" romance of the Old South immortalized by Margaret Mitchell. And how to capitalize on a past that is the source of both its magnolia-scented allure and its shame, while marketing itself as a place of the future...