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...Lowdown:Called out of Darkness is catnip for devout Christians: Rice's conversion is disorganized enough to sound real, her eagerness to embrace confession and discipleship is inspiring, and her arguments in a passage on "Christmas Christianity" suggest Rice could rival C.S. Lewis as a popular apologist for the faith. For those more interested in learning about what shaped the author of the bestselling vampire sagas and volumes of sadomasochistic pornography (written under a pseudonym), the book is maddening. Rice drops dark hints of severe dyslexia, militant gender ambiguity, alcoholism and bipolarity, but retreats, giving little away. The startling childhood...
...with roguish rhetoric and short fuses - leavened for variety with the odd upmarket observation. "Beauty is a cruel mistress," Uri says of his painting, with a mixture of connoisseurship and threat. Some of the lines could almost be put to music, like "The streets are alive with the sound of pain...
...entertainment center to get the remote to work. But once we had the game on, it was worth the slight bruising: the colors were sensational and bright; the players, larger than life. I had lugged a pair of speakers up from the basement and connected them to my sound system for the full surround-sound effect, so when the band struck up the Michigan fight song ("Hail! to the victors valiant/ Hail! to the conqu'ring heroes"), Dorfman, an alumnus, brushed away a tear. Emboldened, I marveled at the superior picture quality. "Supposedly, the reds are redder," I said, pointing...
...Weiss believes these banks are far less likely to run aground than the panic-induced price of credit-default swaps would suggest. But since the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, "people have no idea how sound banks are," he says, so "the whole financial system is locking up." The U.S. government's rescue plan should help, and Weiss thinks there's a fair chance that the busted assets it's buying to prop up the system will rise sharply in value as everything stabilizes. But he's by no means confident that the $700 billion bet will...
...urgently need a Kyoto Protocol for financial climate change with clear objectives: elaborate policies to reduce the greed-house effect and reverse the decline of ethical values. Take measures to stop and fine the emission of toxic investment funds. Promote and reward the development of sound long-term financial products. Ray Moser, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND...