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...American consumers and poured capital into the U.S. to keep the buying going. These inflows kept the dollar strong, making life tough for U.S. exporters; they also saddled Americans with the unsustainable debt loads that led to the financial crisis. Now no one abroad is willing to lend to deadbeat American households, and the U.S. government has temporarily taken over as the world's chief borrower and spender. But as we've just learned from the example of the American consumer, one can't borrow and spend forever...
Were he alive today, the Buddha would be in jail for child-support violations. Two-and-a-half millenniums of adoration and mythology have obscured the unflattering fact that the Buddha was a deadbeat dad. So a shimmering new English translation of the Buddhacarita, the 2nd century Sanskrit poem chronicling his life, reminds us that in his search for enlightenment and release from samsara - the wheel of rebirths that condemns us to endless lives and thus suffering - he cruelly abandoned his wife and young son Rahula (whose name, making a not-so-subtle point, means "fetters...
...srepentant and heartfelt confession on thechorus: “I’m only human / I’m a man, Imake mistakes.” Here and here alone doesRoss deign to talk about anything otherthan that rap trifecta of money/cash/hos.Instead, he recalls his “deadbeat dad” who“never knew chocolate milk make you fartreal bad,” his struggle coming up, and hisown problems with his children and hisbaby’s mama. With this one track, Rossdiscloses a touchingly human side thathas remained buried until now. The factthat this...
...dead or alive,” she said.Even the film industry contributed to this surge in national machismo, according to Faludi.In the 2005 film “War of the Worlds,” Tom Cruise’s character represents what Faludi characterized as the deadbeat father who rescues his daughter from molesters and aliens and thus recovers his manhood.It is her former media colleagues, though, who bore the brunt of Faludi’s scorn in her talk at the bookstore.She cited numerous examples from publications like the New York Times, USA Today, and Newsweek to underscore their...
...there are no certainties on the Korean peninsula. Should Pyongyang renege on its promise to dismantle its nuclear program, crippling U.S. sanctions will almost certainly continue. And South Korean presidential elections in December could usher in a new government with a less conciliatory stance toward its deadbeat neighbor. To see just how far North Korea still has to go, you need only visit the Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge linking the booming Chinese metropolis of Dandong with the sooty failed economic zone of Sinuiju. Commerce between the two nations is limited to a trickle of trucks on the bridge's single...