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...even before 2001 there was a widespread, bipartisan Washington consensus that financial markets knew best. And even when some in government suspected that they didn't, the territorial lines between regulatory agencies often stood in the way of doing anything about it. The Securities and Exchange Commission, well versed in investor protection but not so much in safety and soundness, remained as lead regulator of brokerage firms even as they evolved into giant investment banks whose failure could endanger the financial system. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency battled state regulators over who had the right to impose...
...embarrassment that many women choose to ignore, but incontinence is a widespread disorder that may affect one in four women and perhaps as many as one-third of older women in their lifetime, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). While there are several medical solutions to treat this common problem, the study's authors say that one of the simplest and most effective ways to ward it off is to maintain a healthy weight...
...really, really common in women, even teenagers, to leak once in a blue moon," says Nygaard, perhaps when they cough during an illness, bounce on a trampoline or laugh extremely hard. But the JAMA study reveals that moderate to severe incontinence is also a widespread condition. More than half of all women who suffer from it, however, never bring it up with their doctors, according to previous studies. "Partly it's embarrassment, or they don't think there is any treatment, or that the only treatment is surgical," says Nygaard...
...which, one hopes, will spark a fresh reappraisal of the work of the most misunderstood, and very likely best, playwright currently writing in English. That is far from a widespread view. In America, Ayckbourn is still typecast, anachronistically, as a lightweight boulevard farceur (the "British Neil Simon"), or simply as a clever deviser of staging gimmicks: plays that squeeze the action in several rooms into one space, or move backward in time, or fill up the stage with water, or (in his insanely ambitious Intimate Exchanges) have no fewer than 16 dramatic permutations, depending on which alternative action the characters...
...earnest author of wooden allegories, Orwell wrote clumsy prose with little grasp of character or style. But he had the moral lucidity to write passionately and unequivocally about the definitive issue of his time: the unmitigated evils of totalitarianism, in both right and left-wing guises. Solzhenitsyn, too, earned widespread acclaim as a great novelist not for any virtuosic abilities, but for the penumbra that hovered over him as a martyr to the Soviet regime. Nabokov might have had nothing but disdain for such “topical trash,” but the century’s horrors made...