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...Beloved won with 15 votes; DeLillo's Underworld got the silver medal with 11. Also among the top vote-getters was Philip Roth's American Pastoral (7 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8 votes) and John Updike's Rabbit quadrilogy (also 8 votes, from judges using the term "novel" with gymnastic flexibility.) You are hereby saved the trouble of reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani...
...company on how to cope with its rapid expansion. Yevgeny Chichvarkin, Euroset's ponytailed co-founder and chairman, is conscious of his success - perhaps too conscious. In a corner of his Moscow office, perched beneath a painting of a businessman fondling his half-naked secretary, is an open silver attaché case containing wads of U.S. $100 bills in packs of $10,000. It's meant as a joke, poking fun at perceptions of Russian businessmen as big-spending bandits. After the 1998 crisis, Chichvarkin says Euroset's focus was on low prices. But now that Russians have more money...
...crude packaging machine and set up a business selling sunflower seeds and other products. He buys seeds in bulk from farmers in Rostov, 250 miles away, roasts them and then sells them in nearby towns. Today Kuznetsov Seed Co. has annual revenues of about $1 million. Kuznetsov drives a silver Renault Scenic SUV while his wife, who has stopped work to remodel their apartment, dodges potholes in her new lime green Daewoo. "You can never be optimistic about anything in our country because if you're optimistic, it will end badly," he says. But he credits Putin with instilling confidence...
...recycling bins, and everyone arrived in green, really excited to be helping the environment,” Artz said. “They were drinking for the environment.” Other Mather eco-projects included campaigning for the kitchen shared by Dunster and Mather dining halls to be silver-certified for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a national award given by the U.S. Green Building Council, and restoring the Student Mug Rack, which allows students to use their own mugs washed by kitchen staff, according to O’Connor. O’Connor also credited Mather?...
...embroiled in a rancorous race to midterm elections, congressmen and senators seem more concerned with pandering to the vagaries of focus groups and opinion polls than devising a genuine solution to our oil addiction. They seek to find the proverbial silver bullet, unwilling to face the hard truth that our gasoline problem is not amenable to simplistic panaceas. But so far, Congress’s fixes have been impotent at best, its lobby-driven debate pusillanimous at worst. Americans deserve better...