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...Post 9/11 America.” In studying the media coverage that immediately followed 9/11, Faludi said that she uncovered a bizarre slew of stories that, unexpectedly, focused on bringing back traditional family arrangements.Faludi, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who has penned two previous books, says that the sudden movement towards traditional family arrangements was a reaction to the trauma of Sept. 11.“On that day, we suffered a physical attack that destroyed buildings and people, and a symbolic attack that destroyed the myth of invincibility,” Faludi said. The nation as a whole...
...local Wal-Mart yet, these forces may already be in play. Demand from China, along with other fast-growing emerging economies, has driven up the price of oil and a wide range of other commodities for the past several years. But what's really worrying many economists is the sudden appearance of relatively high inflation within China and the ripples that might cause abroad. Despite five interest-rate increases this year by China's central bank, the country's consumer price index has been stubbornly on the rise. In August, inflation climbed to a 6.5% annual rate, the fastest clip...
...just as often as North Korea has opened the door a crack, it has slammed it shut. In 2005, for instance, the government suddenly reversed its decision to allow private markets, forcing many North Koreans back into food-rationing. And at April's meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim's government sacked Prime Minister Pak Pong Ju, who had led a Cabinet-level economic think tank and was seen by some as friendly to reformers. "All of a sudden the wind seems to have gone out of the sail," says Brad Babson, a former North Korea specialist...
...Luft—to finally finish off the Big Red.“Anyone who knows football knows it’s such a tenuous thing, momentum,” Knowles said. “We felt like we didn’t have it, then all of a sudden, we had a rush. We had our chance, but we just didn’t make enough plays to keep it going.”Junior Matt Curtis’s interception on the following drive proved as much, showing that, finally, the Crimson could finish what it started...
This mundane and continuous task contrasts strikingly with the emotional heaviness of the setting and the constant threat of a sudden end to Max and Horst’s lives...