Word: vale
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There's a point in this headlong novel at which Suzanne Vale (read author Carrie Fisher) finally somersaults into the Mount Doom of her dilemmas. This is not long after she realizes at last that going off the medication for her manic depression was a mistake. For one thing, that was what let her shoot at top speed, flinging one-liners all the way, to that place in her head where it seemed like a simply terrific idea--terrific!--to get a tattoo, cut off her hair and convert to Judaism, preferably Orthodox, though not before heading to Mexico with...
...pieces like so many of his friends?there are times when Ghulam Mohiuddin Sofi knows he made the right decision to stand for election. One of these sublime moments came last week as his convoy of election workers and supporters neared Waskora, a tiny village in the lush Vale of Kashmir. A cheering, chanting crowd brought him to a halt, while men and women in nearby apple orchards and barley fields threw down their baskets and hoes and ran yelling to join the swelling procession. To a roar of approval, Sofi was hoisted onto the saddle of a mountain pony...
...those who only associate Kashmir with the violence that has claimed tens of thousands of lives, Koul's lovely, elegiac memoir The Tiger Ladies (Beacon Press; 224 pages) shows that the isolated vale in the Himalayas was a heaven before it became a hell. In the simpler pre-partition world of Koul's majestic grandmother and anxious mother, Hindus and Muslims were united by their fiercely unique Kashmiri identity. The greatest threat was a harsh winter and even that, in Koul's lush prose, was to be cherished as a gift...
...recovery starts right here," gushed Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, to CNNfn, and who knows, he might just be right. Stock-watching cynics still want those rich folks to dump equities en masse in a vale of tears - it?s called capitulation - before they turn bullish, and Lord knows they?ve been the smart ones for the better part of a year...
...Ehrmann owns 95% of the Server Group, which he intends to list on France's Nouveau Marché later this year. His investment bankers expect the group to have a market vale of $169 million. Only one of Server's companies is losing money: Artprice.com, which is already a listed stock. But Ehrmann believes rising traffic (4 million searches per month) and the success of a print edition, Artprice Annual, will make it profitable this year...