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Here's the moment when Joshua Ferris' new novel upshifts from good to great. The Unnamed is a novel about a marriage - hang on, that's not the moment - in which the husband Tim, a high-powered lawyer, is cursed with a bizarre affliction: every once in a while, without warning, he starts to walk compulsively, and he can't stop until he falls down from exhaustion. He and his wife Jane have tried dozens of cures, but nothing works. Then, a quarter of the way through the book, they get a letter from a famous neurologist, an Oliver Sacks...
...lesser writer, a development like that would be enough to hang the rest of the novel on. You couldn't resist it: enter the charismatic, avuncular neurologist who patiently leads Tim back into the light, dispensing wisdom and learning some life lessons of his own along the way. Maybe he cures Tim. Maybe he runs off with Jane. Who knows? But none of that happens in The Unnamed. Instead, Jane throws the letter in the trash without even finishing it. That's how crushed her spirit is. Even the possibility of hope is too much for her to bear...
...were John Edwards, I'd try to concentrate all the bad news at once," says Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Kellogg School of Management. "Get it out of the way. And then focus on replacing it with good news." When Tiger Woods starts to play good golf, his transgressions will fade from memory. Unlike Woods, however, Edwards doesn't have any public venues he can easily hop back into...
...fact that Obama is now calling for even tougher measures may make it even tougher to attract votes from Republicans or finance-friendly Democrats like Tim Johnson of South Dakota, where Citigroup (like most card issuers) has chartered its credit-card division. But Republicans haven't shown much inclination to cast votes to help Obama get anything done. And even if there were still 60 Democrats in the Senate, the health care saga demonstrated the difficulty of keeping them all on board without watering down the legislation, infuriating the party's base and ultimately disgusting the electorate through extended exposure...
...surprise because [Faust] had been preparing us for it over the last year, so it was a formalization of that, and I think we all knew it,” said longtime Allston resident Tim McHale. “My overall reaction is that I feel sorry that it can’t move forward both for Harvard and for the community...