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...guess that's the movie's big theme: guns kill people. Guns...
...vigilant. Markets, indeed entire economies, can turn in what appears to be an instant. Stuff happens. But in my view the sudden frenzy about inflation is misplaced. Powerful forces in the world economy continue to keep prices largely in check. Indeed, if anything, central banks in their determination to kill inflation before it happens may already have tightened too much. Over the last decade, the world has experienced a series of brutal deflationary shocks. They started with the collapse of the Mexican peso in the mid-1990s. In 1997, much of eastern Asia's flourishing economy was leveled. Next were...
...number he has been running on reporters for more than 30 years, but it's still pretty effective. "You are a prisoner of the TIME-LIFE world that sent you," he says. When I'm not immediately sure how to respond to that, he goes in for the kill: "Well, is it true...
...every so often, they push back. Whenever an alligator kills a human, the state sends out trappers to catch and kill it. The animals responsible for the three recent attacks have all been trapped. Parts of Jimenez were found in the belly of a 9 1/2-ft. alligator, Cooper's arm and hand were recovered from an 8 1/2-footer, and Campbell's killer was identified by scratches around its eye. But it's not as if those particular alligators were more dangerous than most, and destroying them won't prevent future attacks. Officials say the best ways to avoid becoming dinner...
...Bechdel knew that her father, an English teacher in small-town Pennsylvania, was odd. He was withdrawn, he decorated their house too much, he moonlighted as an undertaker. But she didn't realize he was gay and seducing his young students, and she certainly didn't expect him to kill himself at 44 years old. In this brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form, Bechdel combines stories from her emotionally barren but weirdly fascinating childhood with elegant allusions to Proust and Joyce to make a gripping story of filial sleuthery and, in the end, hard-earned acceptance...