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...that black day after the election. I was looking for something visceral, for a howling dark poem, but instead I found “When I Was One-and-Twenty,” by A. E. Housman: “When I was one-and-twenty/ I heard a wise man say,/ ‘Give crowns and pounds and guineas/ But not your heart away… But I was one-and-twenty/ No use to talk to me.” Then there is a stanza break, and: “‘The heart...
Elsewhere in America, a family therapist, a pastor or a wise grandparent might perform Karen Faverey's job. But in Delaware Terrace, a rambling brick housing project in the Rust Belt town of Easton, Pa., Faverey, a serene mother of six, is paid by the Federal Government to enter the living rooms of unwed, low-income couples and ask a loaded question. "You know which question I'm talking about," Faverey says to Lamont Sims and Stephanie Bryant, who live and work in Delaware Terrace, he in the maintenance department, she as a receptionist. They have dated...
...course, investing in stocks rather than bonds does carry some greater risks. Your return of principal is not guaranteed, and a company can choose to cut its dividend. So how can you tell if a particular dividend payer is a wise investment? Start by looking at dividend yield--the annual payout divided by the stock price. Still, betting on a company solely because it carries a high yield is risky. In mid-October, for instance, department-store company Saks offered a dividend yield above 16%. But the stock had fallen 33% over the previous six months, and uneven sales trends...
What Desai catches more deeply, though, is all that can't be seen or said. She gives us her pilgrims from the inside out, illuminating their hopes but wise to their illusions. And as Eric, a budding scholar of immigration, learns about more final passages, there is a musk of Lawrencian magic hovering around the social comedy. The terrain of Anglo-Indian confusion that Desai helped discover is now looking close to overcrowded. In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map. --By Pico Iyer
...until the spring rolls around, Grumet-Morris will continue to be known as the smart guy on the team. Though he insists that the constant wise cracks about his intelligence don’t bother him, the other players amuse themselves thoroughly at Grumet-Morris’s expense...