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...hangs together more neatly. It's a much more personal novel than the earlier ones. Not unlike Wolfe, Charlotte is a permanent outsider, a lonely observer. Wolfe's books are usually more about setting than character, but Charlotte's delicately drawn highs and lows give the book an unexpectedly tender heart. "I went through a bout of depression myself," he says, "and that's why I felt I knew exactly how she would feel. As I look back on it, there's a lot of me in Charlotte...
...especially with the various JFKs. “The first campaign I ever worked on was JFK’s [John F. Kennedy] in 1960, so I thought it’d be good to return,” Parker said. Since that first campaign—at the tender age of 13—Parker has worked on 13 presidential campaigns in all. Twelve years in academia didn’t blunt his political edge either. He led Greenpeace and co-founded Mother Jones, a magazine devoted to investigative journalism...
Fans of finger food, you’re in luck—there are no utensils involved. Instead, you tear off pieces of the spongy injera and use them to scoop up each of the different meals in turn. Rip and go for the begeeh mloukhiya, tender pieces of lamb in a red pepper sauce that’s faintly reminiscent of a sloppy joe. Rotate the platter for asmara tibsy, one of the house specialties. The small sautéed cubes of beef melt in your mouth amid a swirl of onions, green peppers, chilies and unidentifiable spices. Spin...
Sherry's greatest find is, no doubt, the letters--tender, imploring and naked--that Greene wrote over decades to Walston. The man often celebrated as the patron saint of doubters is here revealed as one of the romantics of the century ("You are the only real life there was: everything else was a drug to keep me going until you were with me"). Yet showcasing these letters gives us a sexual Greene at the expense of a mischievous Greene or the anguished Catholic Greene. And each time Greene's prose appears on the page, Sherry's seems more prosaic...
What does this have to do with the euro? Passau is a textbook example of what is supposed to happen after a monetary union. Long before the euro became legal tender in 12 European countries on Jan. 1, 2002, economists and policymakers pledged that one of its benefits would be to facilitate price competition across borders, leading to nimbler and more robust national economies. Such "price harmonization" was one of many economic virtues the euro was supposed to usher in: it would eliminate many transaction costs, put an end to bruising currency devaluations, allow savers and lenders to benefit from...