Word: wretchedness
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PAUL GRAY has spent 24 years at TIME reviewing and writing about such authors as John Updike, John Cheever and Toni Morrison, but he says this week's story on Tom Wolfe was one of his most intimidating endeavors. "I was nervous about interviewing Wolfe because he is a superb...
Absent from those and any other of Mahathir's proclamations over the past few years has been any sense of personal culpability for the tar pit that his country?s economy has abruptly become. The usual Asian suspects ?- crony capitalism, lack of financial disclosure and plain old-fashioned corruption ?- are...
In the wretched of the earth, Frantz Fanon's landmark work of revolutionary theory, the famed psychiatrist and social critic states that "the colonized man who writes for his people ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future, as an invitation to action and a basis...
ANNALS OF WRETCHED EXCESS
So consumers are being sated, but many investors are going hungry. Boston Market has produced excellent food and wretched numbers. The company's rapid expansion, a controversial franchising scheme and an overly ambitious menu racked up losses of $224 million on sales of $379 million last year. The stock has...