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...Chanda also draws plenty of parallels with our own day. It's hard to tell whether these comparisons are contrived, elucidative or banal, but they mostly entertain in the way that popular history can. For example, he writes that today's sprawling multinational corporations are modeled on the crown-backed trading houses of England, Portugal and Holland, whose empires themselves followed a continuum stretching back to the ancient kingdoms of Mesopotamia. He contends that the silver and gold bullion mined in Mexico and Peru and shipped across oceans in galleons by the conquering Spanish preceded the convertible currencies and credit...
...results would have delighted the Surrealists. Aside from being great fun, As You Were Saying undermines literary stereotypes of the pop-culture-obsessed, narrative-driven Americans and the introspective, abstract-minded French. If the names had been switched, you couldn't tell who wrote what. Consider the book's first pairing: a ripped-from-the-headlines story by France's Marie Darrieussecq about a woman whose lover receives a full-face transplant; then an inside-out version by Rick Moody, who retells it from the man's point of view. "One day I woke to find that...
...RETURN With immigration reform stalled, the government is poised to crack down on illegals in the workplace, and Real ID would help employers tell who's who. Washington will try out a voluntary hybrid card system, which officials say will boost antiterrorism efforts...
Will you bring more of an edge to the show? Tell me you will use a cordless microphone! -Ed Schofield, CLARKSTON, MICH.[Laughs.] I am going to use a cordless microphone, and there is a new coat of paint, but nothing else will change. The games and sets are all the same. I won't be doing a Bob Barker impression. I can't be dirty like I am in my act. I am just going to be myself, and people will accept...
...ever need a break from trying to be funny? -Ju Huang, STAMFORD, CONN.For me, that's like asking, Do you need a break from being happy? God, I hope not. There is no such thing as too much fun. People need to know it is O.K. to tell jokes and be happy...