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...cool” to “pleasant” all fall somehow short. Indeed, in our generation’s frenzied opposition to awkwardness, we have become the very thing we so desperately sought to avoid. Instead of risking mispronouncing our roommate’s name, we spend three years coming up with inventive terms of endearment. Rather than call someone, we send text messages that take up three whole screens...
...face when the economy crumbles, obliging us to sell our cell phones, dress in drab burlap ensembles, and stand in long lines waiting for soup. There’s a reason we consider sincere intellectual engagement awkward. The longer we can postpone that, the more time we can spend making lists of verboten terms like “moist,“ “dank,” and “tender” and quietly hoping someone else will fix the economy...
...first vist two weeks ago. Then General Motors' Rick Wagoner, Ford's Alan Mulally and Chrysler's Ron Nardelli came in corporate jets and left with the angry words of lawmakers ringing in their ears. This time they traveled in hybrid cars, offered detailed plans for how they would spend and repay the $34 billion in government loans they requested, and met with a much friendlier reception. They still didn't leave with any money - although that could change next week. (Read TIME's biographies of the Big Three CEOs...
...ideas of creativity and depression.“I don’t buy this figure of the depressed and suffering poet,” Lewis says. “Poetry teaches you strategies to deal with depression. I think poets get this reputation for being depressed because they spend more time in tough terrain, not because they’re more delicate.”But Lewis believes that poetry also has a meaning beyond the individual poet; it resonates physically within an individual and politically within a society.“If we don’t have...
...That, at least, is the nightmare version from the American perspective. But China's ability to make or break the U.S. economy is more of a "monster under our bed," says Michael Pettis, a finance professor at Beijing University, something that people spend too much time worrying about. Economists like Pettis believe - and the data to date suggest - that both consumption and private investment in the U.S. are plunging at a faster rate than government spending is rising. And given that consumers have shut their wallets, the U.S. savings rate is almost certainly headed up as this recession deepens...