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...what of a man who has lost his job and is afraid to share his failure with those closest to him? The hero of Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'emploi du temps) uses his enforced spare time the way he always did: driving his car from Pointless A to Pointless B, sitting in office lobbies, pretending to prepare for that big conference. Vincent (the fascinatingly opaque Aurelien Recoing) still needs to pay the bills, so he dreams himself a bigger job, sells dummy shares in his nonexistent new company to friends and family, dabbles in black-market trading. Finally...
...Cohen once told me he will give most of his tens of millions to charity and leave just $1 million to his daughter, a nice cushion but not enough to live well on without working. Other rich folks, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, have similar plans to spare their heirs what wealth advisers call "affluenza," an affliction that was fleetingly pandemic during the dotcom daze. Wealth doctors have lost a few patients since then. But even as stocks have slumped, home prices have swelled. Household net worth is down only slightly from its 1999 peak. Meanwhile, tax changes this...
...producing states. The guardian of the cartel’s well being is Saudi Arabia, a state the U.S. inexplicably calls an ally, whose ruling family has chosen not to own up to the country’s complicity in promoting global terrorism. Owing to its significant spare capacity, Saudi Arabia can endure prolongs price slumps much more easily than other oil producers...
...final 40 strokes brought Radcliffe past Cornell, as the Black and White walked through the Big Red with room to spare and won by one seat of open water in 7:33.7. Cornell followed in 7:37.5 while Princeton trailed...
...Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar came within hours of detonating a pipe bomb, and himself, in a Brooklyn, N.Y., subway station used by many Orthodox Jews. His roommate, an Egyptian, discovered what he was up to and, aghast, tipped off local police, who foiled the plot with just hours to spare. Police found two fully rigged pipe bombs packed with nails and bullets in his apartment. Though the would-be suicide bomber wasn't working for any Palestinian group, his case suggests that Middle East violence could provoke independent attacks in the U.S. "One of the biggest dangers is that lone...