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...time he published that story, in 1953, Salinger had found his own sort of yogi's retreat, the small house in Cornish, N.H. When he first took it on, it had no heat, electricity or running water. But it rested on 90 hillside acres that could insulate him from an outside world he found increasingly trivial, irrelevant and intrusive. For a while he mixed comfortably with his neighbors. But then a couple of teenage girls interviewed him for what he thought would be a story on the high school page of the local paper. When the paper billed it instead...
...races,” Morawski said. “Hopefully we’ll be fast, but we really hope that all the little things we’ve been working on all year will pay off: making sure that we’re holding our streamlines in the water, working our kicks off the wall, and those kinds of things...
...sand approach to the consumer agency is a formula for gridlock. Meanwhile, in the post-Massachusetts political climate - and with so much industry cash sloshing around in Washington - centrist Democrats seem to fear getting tagged as Obama liberals more than they fear getting tagged as Wall Street water carriers. And the White House would rather see reform blocked by Republican recalcitrance it can exploit at the polls than watch another round of interminable horse-trading that will ultimately be blamed on Obama...
...Paul Kanjorski says that last March, when he pitched Volcker on a plan to let regulators break up big banks that threatened the financial system, the former Fed chair said, "I'm out of vogue right now in the White House ... but I agree." Volcker secured his walk-on-water reputation by taming runaway inflation in the late 1970s, jacking up interest rates and ignoring intense public pressure to reverse course. His grandpa-in-the-attic status in Obamaworld seemed to suggest an Administration too cozy with the Street...
...Villas Uluwatu, alilahotels.com, on the island's Bukit Peninsula. The resort is the first in Indonesia to win Green Globe certification, denoting compliance with principles endorsed at the 1992 U.N. Rio Earth Summit. Only local materials are used. The planting of indigenous vegetation like sweet lemongrass for landscaping keeps water consumption down, as does the deployment of rain gardens to collect precipitation. Cabanas are made with old telephone poles and railroad ties, while volcanic rocks used in villa construction absorb heat from the sun and keep interiors cool, minimizing the need for air-conditioning...