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Cheever grew up in the Greater Boston shore town of Quincy. His father was a traveling shoe salesman successful enough for a while to keep his family in middling Yankee splendor - a big house, good schools for John and his older brother Fred. But by the mid-1920s, as Cheever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Darkness Visible | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Yin and Yang You know the story of the ant and the grasshopper? The ant is disciplined, the grasshopper parties as if the good times will last forever - and then winter descends. Americans are, bless us, energetic grasshoppers as well as energetic ants, a sui generis crossbreed, which is why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America? | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

Do you think the foie gras industry will grow, given how successful activists have been at stigmatizing it?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mark Caro, author of The Foie Gras Wars | 3/26/2009 | See Source »

There's popular pressure for punishing people responsible for this mess. How important do you think it is to restore accountability? What I find really interesting about the public response is that the values that people hold to be important - like working hard and taking responsibility - are the values that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown: 'Sometimes a Crisis Forces Change' | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

So why do you think you can be successful? Sometimes it's a crisis that forces change. The world that emerges out of this crisis won't be the same. The banking system will be based on sounder principles. Countries will be more willing to cooperate not just on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown: 'Sometimes a Crisis Forces Change' | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

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