Word: uncertainity
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...with. Drink like a tourist By that we mean stick to the big hotels and smarter restaurants. Don't get drunk in unfamiliar surroundings. keep your wits about you Don't walk alone late at night; don't wear expensive jewelry; avoid carrying handbags; don't appear lost or uncertain. And finally, if you really want to blend in, that's easy: just chew betel nut and wear old clothes. Any self-respecting raskol is likely to think twice when he sees you with ripped jeans and a mouth full of scary red spit...
Former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin spent six years in the Clinton Administration, where he and Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan got credit for keeping the U.S. economy booming. in his new book, In an Uncertain World (Random House), Rubin discusses why that economy worked. He talked with TIME's Bill Saporito about why the current one has been struggling...
...brittle, amusing narrator. But eventually she's just the audience for Chubb's less gripping story of his daughter's kidnapping by McCorkle, the figment with a beating heart. With this, the book seems to move from novel to fable, a world in which poems and children all have uncertain parentage. Even so, decoding that fable is another kind of pleasure. Carey's book begins with a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world. But in a universe where so much is false, why should poetry...
...Georgian velvet revolution!" proclaimed jubilant radical opposition leader Mikhail Saakashvili as he and hundreds of cheering supporters burst into Tbilisi's parliament Saturday afternoon. By nightfall, the country was in chaos, its leadership uncertain, its territorial integrity threatened - and there were still some fears that the velvet might become stained with blood. The legislative body, elected in Nov 2. polls that were marred by charges of widespread vote rigging, had been ordered into session by President Eduard Shevardnadze, but only 114 of the 235 deputies had bothered to show up. The security services, who had earlier said they would...
Eight years ago, McCarty was seemingly just another freshman plowing through college and uncertain of his future. Yet there was more to the story of this chemistry whiz kid unenthusiastically enrolled as a chemistry concentrator. He had just taken a year off after high school to pursue his newly found love of the double-bass, and little did he know it, but this move was going to completely shape the next eight years of his life...