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From that day until his death on Jan. 27 at age 91, at his home in Cornish, N.H., Salinger was the hermit crab of American letters. When he emerged, it was usually to complain that somebody was poking at his shell. Over time Salinger's exemplary refusal of his own...
The Dec. 14th opinion piece “Make Like a Democrat,” cites a figure of 47 million uninsured Americans. This oft-quoted statistic is actually a gross overestimation of the problem—recent research suggests that the number of Americans who cannot currently afford health...
So now they want to draw bright lines: Are you with us or Wall Street, with ordinary families or greedy titans? They figure that if they can't get a legislative victory, they'll get a potent political issue.
Some analysts compared Toyota's decision to suspend sales of several popular models to Johnson & Johnson's 1982 decision to sweep packages of Tylenol off shelves after some were found to have been criminally tainted with poison after being shipped to stores. Tylenol's market share plunged from 35% to...
2. Be bigger than life. Obama is in many ways an ordinary guy (not unlike brush-clearing Bush and shorts-wearing Clinton). Scenes of him rhapsodizing about ESPN or headed out for burgers serve to humanize Obama and are certainly an appealing window into his real-life self. But through...