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...reputation is now so immense that younger readers may not realize how unlikely his success once seemed, at least to others. Atlas is good at portraying the obstacles the literary establishment placed in the path of a Midwestern Jew. When Bellow graduated from Northwestern University, the English-department chairman told him, "I wouldn't recommend that you study English. You weren't born to it." And this was intended as friendly advice. Bellow later resented being labeled a Jewish writer, not because he abjured his faith but because he found attempts to pigeonhole him and his work offensive...
...need to opt out of the collective din, you can put on headphones. At ad agency Ground Zero in Los Angeles, chairman Jim Smith reports, "everyone's computer plays music, so they wear their headphones and create their own worlds." At idealab! several people resort to this strategy. "I have no idea what they're listening to," says Horwitz...
Consumer advocates like former Senator Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Consumer Federation of America, hope that a government win might lead to a shake-up in interest rates, which this summer hit a six-year peak of 17.8%. Interest rates and penalty fees have shot up over the past several years, as issuers scramble to compensate for the growing number of Americans--now a majority--who clear their balances every month to avoid such charges. The fee system is at issue in several other cases involving the behemoths...
...privatized, Commercial Bank (KB), police are investigating 11 former employees, including board members, on suspicion of mismanagement of assets in a deal that cost the bank $200 million. Criminal charges are being considered in another case that cost the bank more than $60 million. Radovan Vavra, KB's new chairman, is diplomatic about the old management. "There were a number of very good, educated but naive people who didn't know what modern banking is about," he says. But taxpayers who are paying the price are unlikely to be as understanding as Vavra...
...simple. I promised that we would leave no stone unturned to find a partner for peace. And now I should tell you that with the same determination that we looked for a reasonable, honest peace of the brave, we will struggle if Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian Authority will try to impose their own will upon us through the use of violence. We are a tough and small people who want peace, but we are ready to fight if necessary. Arafat initiated and launched this violence, sending innocent, incited citizens, together with policemen and Tanzim people and kids 10 years...