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John Lennon: The Life By Philip Norman; out now More moving and less plausible than most fiction, Lennon's life is one of the great 20th century fables, and it's told here definitively by a major Beatles scholar. Even as Lennon went from young tough to global pop star to hippie prophet, he never ceased to be a shattered, motherless little boy. When have so many ever followed anyone so lost...
National politicians usually have years to build these homunculi of themselves. The race to sculpt Public Palin was instant, and Fey had the sharpest chisel. Where Palin's campaign projected a smart, tough, folksy reformer, Fey showed a posing, in-over-her-head maverick...
...complex debt vehicles like mortgage-backed securities but also plain old faltering home loans with local banks, without vacuuming up every loan in the country. If these approaches don't work, Kashkari and the rest of Paulson's team will need a Plan B. And fast. It's a tough assignment for a temp...
...make themselves at home. That's because the $400 million retail complex includes not just Cole Haan, Barnes & Noble and Urban Outfitters but also 100 condos and 238 apartments--part of real estate's mixed-use trend. Since the Americana's opening, however, the economy has taken a tough turn. TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan asked Lawrence, V.P. of sales at a company that makes motion-sensor trash cans, about life as an early settler at the mall, in good times...
...Crimson won that game against Lafayette, 27-13. It was a nice statement to make after the Brown loss, but Ivy League games are what count, and Harvard is in store for a tough one on Saturday...