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The modern literary tradition—in particular, the Lost Generation writers and their contemporaries—has done something curious in romanticizing the throes of alcoholism. Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald were all raging alcoholics and filled their novels with characters who acted likewise. But never before, and rarely today...
Yet somehow, out of a routine piece of choreography - two world leaders standing at adjoining lecterns - Obama conjured a sense of optimism about what the G-20 might achieve, and more broadly about America's changed view of its international role. He had come, he told an audience that included...
Citigroup hasn't lost all its muscle. Despite talk of nationalization and speculation that bad loans might soon push the bank into insolvency, Citi's bankers who advise other companies on mergers and acquisitions are having a banner year. Through the first two months of 2009, bankers at Citi were...
Once some banks do sell, though, it could force a widespread, and revealing, revaluation of similar assets on every bank's books. The banks have been asking regulators and accountants for, and getting, relief from having to mark some of their assets to market prices because the markets for many...
Why Appenzell, the second smallest of Switzerland's 26 cantons, known for its cheese and sturdy mountain dogs, became a nude-hiking mecca is the subject of some speculation. "It's probably because naked hikers who had been here raved about their experiences on blogs, building this area's reputation...