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...diagnosed as "mentally disordered." Outside she sees a city bustling with new roads, new cars, new phones, new buildings?and filled with a compassionless new breed of people chasing material wealth. She is a self-proclaimed "fragment in a fragmented age," left to dwell on her own adolescence and wonder where it all went wrong...
...Little wonder that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned last month that "the recent run-up in oil prices, if sustained, may exert a significant drag on Japanese economic activity." Although oil is not the only factor, Japan's robust spurt does seem to be flagging: GDP growth slowed to 1.7% in the second quarter from 6.6% in the first quarter, and recent data on inflation, joblessness and consumer spending were all weaker than economists expected...
Sometimes you have to wonder if everyone in India is writing a novel. In New Delhi, for instance, the roster of published novelists includes newspaper editors, gossip columnists, ex-bureaucrats, housewives, college teachers, advertising executives, a former Prime Minister and the present spokesman for the Ministry of External Affairs. A trip to the fiction section of any Indian bookstore will show that Indians are churning out novels like chapatis these days; shelf after shelf bursts with paperbacks telling of the alienation and loneliness of Indians who've moved to America, the depression and misery of Indians who haven...
...liar and a zealot. He needs to reach the voters who are unsure about either voting for him or voting at all; who don't think he lied but may think he made mistakes; who like his manner but question his judgment; who are glad Saddam is gone but wonder if the price was too high; who wonder whether John Kerry really knows his mind but also whether George Bush ever opens his. Those voters aren't looking for an apology. They do need to see the President growing in the job or get a better idea of where...
...they're held, and if Sydney 2000 was the great global orgy, in which the condom machines in the athletes' village famously couldn't be refilled fast enough, Athens 2004 was often the uncomfortable morning after, the reckoning in which everyone was forced to bundle up the sheets and wonder where this whole international relationship was going...