Word: tigers
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There is no question that racial bias is a powerful force to overcome and a slippery one to quantify. But with Obama propelled by panic over shrinking nest eggs and the wilting Dow, the Bradley effect may be this fall's paper tiger: an old theory re-heated by the media because there's not much left to talk about...
...first thing is to find a bank I can put it in.' ARAVIND ADIGA, winner of the Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, The White Tiger, on what he'll do with the $87,000 in prize money...
...Illustrated History, a captivating visual journey of the world's sciences and unending beauty. Earth is for the living, said Jefferson, and this book is for you. And speaking of books, congratulations to TIME contributor and former correspondent Aravind Adiga, whose astonishing first novel about India, The White Tiger, won this year's Man Booker Prize...
VLADIMIR PUTIN gets tiger cub for his birthday, plans to teach it tiger-claw judo flip...
...Booker judges certainly felt so. Michael Portillo, who chaired the panel of judges and presented Adiga with a check for 50,000 pounds ($87,283) in prize money, told me that part of what thrilled him about The White Tiger is that it's as disturbing as it is entertaining. "This book changed me," Portillo said. "It changed my view of certain things, like what is the real India and what is the nature of poverty." Another of the judges, who asked not to be named, confided that it was "a very tricky choice" between Adiga's book...