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...shrugged when asked about winning the Booker for “The Line of Beauty.” “I’m still amazed at the effect…Suddenly you become noticed all over the world.”While clearly no strategist or self-promoter, Hollinghurst plays a fierce game of armchair politics. He delights in pointing out that “The Line of Beauty,” set in London from 1983 to 1987, contains nothing but praise and awe of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, though the novelist (and, most would argue...
...just what traders wanted to hear. Stock prices were floating higher already in the wake of some good corporate earnings reports and falling energy prices. But the appointment of Bernanke, 51, fueled more buying in the afternoon (the Dow closed up 169.78 points) and, says Jeff Kleintop, chief investment strategist at investment firm PNC Advisors, "could set up a good fourth-quarter rally...
...Looking to take advantage, Democrats are in the last few weeks of honing their messages and themes for next year's elections, which they will roll out next month. Top Democratic leaders will meet this week with former Clinton White House spokesman Mike McCurry and Jim Gerstein, a Democratic strategist. They'll also appear with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to talk about Democratic strategies for dealing with terrorism...
Reed, a key Bush campaign strategist and the favorite in the 2006 race to become Lieutenant Governor of Georgia, was an obliging, even eager middleman, judging by e-mail exchanges between the two, which have been obtained by TIME. (The e-mails have attracted the interest of federal investigators already looking into whether Abramoff defrauded his Indian clients--a charge he denies.) Ten days after 9/11, for instance, Abramoff was promoting a business venture to rent cruise ships to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to billet rescue workers off New York City. Reed assured Abramoff...
...cultural ancestors, Duke Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482), was also quick to anger, though once you got to know him, he would build you a palace. Like all great Renaissance men, Federico was a liberal humanist with diverse interests. He also happened to be the most accomplished military strategist in 15th century Europe, and he used his immense profits as a freelance killing machine to turn Urbino, his hometown in the Marche region on Italy's eastern coast, into the Greenwich Village of the Quattrocento, a place where architects, soldiers, intellectuals and painters could commune under the umbrella...