Word: trickyness
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The 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...
Inflation or Deflation The amount of money that European governments and the U.S. are promising to put into the financial system is so vast - close to $2 trillion, if the cash injections and state guarantees are added up - that it could end up stoking inflation. Consumer prices have anyway been...
This grim outlook presents some particularly tricky challenges to those in charge. In previous downturns, such as the early 1990s slump, governments typically ramped up state spending in order to offset the drop in business activity. But this time, the gigantic cost of bank bailouts will leave national treasuries with...
It was another weekend, another journey on the road for a resilient Harvard women’s tennis team. Continuing its whistle-stop tour of the Northeast—encompassing competitions in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania—the Crimson traveled to the National Tennis Center in Flushing, N.Y...
Finding a balance between secrecy and disclosure is a tricky business, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid discovered on Oct. 1. After the Democrat from Nevada emerged from a luncheon on Capitol Hill, he spoke briefly to reporters about the financial crisis, mentioning that another insurance company was in danger...