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...Roth's credit that he cannot quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as Everyman's concept seems to demand. His style repeatedly breaks its leash, as at the funeral, when the protagonist's brother gives a moving eulogy and his estranged son struggles violently against unbidden grief. But then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence...
...told us that the freshman class included an author who was published at age 17 and is working on her second book. My heart froze, it took my breath away. A voice inside my head said “we don’t belong here—she cannot compete with these students.” During the senior year my daughter served on the honor council and had to present evidence against her best friend. She did so, knowing that she would lose a young man who meant the world to her for five years of daily phone...
...Chernomyrdin Commission reached an agreement for Russia to stop selling weapons to Iran in exchange for the lifting of American prohibitions on certain technology exports. In light of this precedent, it may be sensible to offer compensation for the lost Iranian profit, as certain negotiators have requested. If we cannot count on their ideology, we can count on our checkbooks. Iran might be the most sensitive issue, but it is not the only one. With oil at $70 a barrel, Russian egos have become as inflated as their reserve surplus, which now amounts to almost $60 billion last year. With...
...loans and are, in some cases, forced to drop out. “Families need to take advantage of saving options such as 529 plans,” Long said. Bowles, who received his College degree in economics, believes that Harvard is taking huge strides in helping families who cannot afford the rising costs of college. “Harvard has a long and rich history of strong grant aid and need based aid. Harvard is historically a leader in this area,” he said. “A lot of institutions could be more transparent about college...
...actively ensuring that the people who provide the educational, health and all other basic services in the West Bank and Gaza cannot be paid, the Bush administration is effectively aligning itself with a drive to bring down the Palestinian Authority unless Hamas agrees to formally renounce violence, recognize Israel and abide by previous peace agreements. Although the movement is currently observing a unilateral ceasefire and is beginning, under Arab pressure, to articulate terms on which it may talk peace with Israel, it is unlikely to give in to the U.S. and Israeli demands...