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...cell phone. An actuary at a consulting firm, Vicky needs to close a project tonight. While she phones a colleague, the dinner-table conversation moves on to snowboarding ("I must have fallen a hundred times") to the relative merits of various iPods ("Shuffle is no good") and the sudden onrush of credit cards in China. Silence Chen, an account executive with advertising giant Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing, tells the group he recently received six different cards in the mail. "Each one has a credit limit of 10,000," he says, laughing. "So suddenly I'm 60,000 yuan richer...
...different now. Unlike every other book in the series, Deathly Hallows isn't governed by the stately rhythms and rituals of the school year. It's structured and paced like a war novel: Rowling marches us through a series of military sallies and counter-sallies, brief respites and sudden departures and long-range patrols. At times in the book Harry will whip out the Marauder's Map and look longingly at the little labeled dots as they move around Hogwarts. We know how he feels. Normality has been lost - Deathly Hallows is as much about what isn't happening...
...drafting people could make it easier for the Army to reach its 2012 goal of 547,000 soldiers. It might also save some money if Congress opted to pay draftees less than volunteers. But the downside, the report claims, would be a less effective fighting force, thanks to a sudden influx of draftees who would remain in uniform for much shorter spells than today's all-volunteer soldiers...
...February, when subprime-mortgage woes made headlines in the U.S. and a market crashlet in Shanghai sent global stocks into a swoon. Lately the scares have been smaller but more frequent: a sharp rise in interest rates in May, runs on a couple of hedge funds in June, a sudden drop in demand for risky mortgage and corporate debt in July...
...than complain, she calmly recounts the long story of bad luck and worse lawyers plaguing her 18-year attempt to get U.S. papers. She is impassive while reporting a judge's ruling that her daughter Anabella, 17, would "not be affected by my deportation." But then she recalls the sudden sense of being hunted that put her on her current path. "After I got my final deportation notice," she says, "a friend called and told me there were unmarked police cars in front of my building." There was no raid, but that night there was a video...