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This kind of behavior, contends McCulley, is what the paradox of thrift demands. "Uncle Sam has got to go the other direction and lever up his balance sheet and actually spend money," he says. Simply standing by and letting the downward economic spiral worsen strikes him as "inconsistent with a civilized society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resolving the Paradox of Thrift | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...different strains of language--philosophy, psychology, scientific jargon, advertising, adventure stories--which he then crashed into one another, demolition-derby style, to demonstrate how hilariously inadequate they were for describing the world around us. In "Paraguay," for example, he employs the language of industrial production as art criticism: "Sheet art is generally dried in smoke and is dark brown in color. Bulk art is air-dried, and changes color in particular historical epochs." (Barthelme quotes lose some of their magic out of context, like a colorful shell removed from a tide pool.) In Snow White--to which the New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Barthelme: America's Weirdest Literary Genius | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...California-based Plastic Logic, whose reading device is still a year away from launch, was set to announce a number of partner agreements today, including USA Today and the Financial Times. Though still in prototype, that e-reader is thinner than Kindle2, features a touchscreen the dimensions of a sheet of paper and can render virtually any typeface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amazon's Kindle 2: Trying to Light a Bigger Fire | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...explosion, it is all too easy to overlook what the Crimson has accomplished on the other side of the ice lately—particularly in the net. Harvard junior goalie Christina Kessler made 27 saves in Saturday’s 4-0 win over Brown, notching her second clean sheet in three games—a span in which the Crimson has also scored 14 goals. “Goaltending has been huge too,” Harvard tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt said. “Kessler has been doing a tremendous job for us, and I think that?...

Author: By Loren Amor and Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: NOTEBOOK: Goalie Shines in Net Amid Scoring Surge | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...four times in the three-game stretch and notched three assists.“Both those guys are keys to our power-play and our success. In the last couple of years, whenever we’ve had success, those guys have gotten on the score sheet,” Fraser said. “Even though they’ve been playing well, they’ve been struggling to put the puck on net, but as of late they’ve been hot.”Turning on the offense will help the Crimson do something that...

Author: By Robert T. Hamlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Ready to Take on ECAC Top Dogs | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

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