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...absence of signs that read “this way to your family farm,” my aunt navigated using implicit directions; subtle bends in a stream and large rocks directed us. Along the way, a young boy, about eight years old, and his sister, probably nine, ran toward us like long-lost friends. My sister and I had never seen them before, but they knew who we were: the children born in America who didn’t speak our mother’s language, who had never been to Vietnam, who had never met our grandfather...
...strip bar or hotel lobby. Eggers' strengths as a writer are real: his funny, pitch-perfect dialogue; the way his prose delicately captures the bumblebee blundering of Will's thoughts (he compares the workings of his brain to "a toddler in a room full of new guests"); and the stream-water clarity of his descriptions (with the sentence "His socks were white and Van Horned up around his calves," a reference to chronically uncool NBA player Keith Van Horn, Eggers may have enriched the English language by a verb). At their best, Will and Hand, like Vladimir and Estragon, have...
...more the value of their capital drops, creating intense pressure to sell. But unloading stocks simply makes prices fall, thus further depleting insurers' capital base. The alternative is to beg shareholders for fresh capital - as many insurers have been forced to do - and risk spooking investors. The result: a stream of bad-news announcements by insurers across Europe reporting losses, reduced payouts, layoffs, more than €5 billion in planned capital increases, denials of liquidity problems - and the replacement of half a dozen or so chief executives. The repercussions of the crisis currently shaking the insurance industry, which...
...no” to “fast track” reforms of the Serbian government. In the wake of presidential elections, citizens of Serbia need to reflect back on the past two years of reform and realize why the “reformist” stream is the right option for Serbia...
...defining feature of the Serbian political scene and of yesterday’s elections is the rivalry between reformist and traditionalist forces. The candidate of the reformist stream is Miroljub Labus, an economics expert who had secured Yugoslavia’s membership in the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The main reformist force in the country and propagator of reforms is the Serbian government led by Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, who recently gave a much-praised speech at the Kennedy School of Government. The other major candidate is Vojislav Kostunica, president of Serbia and Montenegro, a traditionalist advocating...