Word: lines
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...million Acela has finally arrived--after a series of engineering snafus, fights with Canadian manufacturer Bombardier and a premature ad campaign--Amtrak is confident that it can steal a large chunk of the airlines' shuttle business, adding close to 2 million passengers and $200 million annually to the bottom line. It needs the money. Even with a record 22.5 million customers, Amtrak lost $520 million last year...
...Bottom line: if you've had guaranteed replacement coverage in the past, it's probably been converted to an extended-limit policy, in which you are protected only to the amount you pay for, plus a 25% buffer. That means if you pay for $100,000 of insurance, you're covered up to $125,000. The buffer is there to compensate for miscalculations...
...literature as in life, a fine line often separates the ambitious from the merely pretentious. In her dazzling debut novel, The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Hyperion; 530 pages; $24.95), Helen DeWitt walks this line with the utmost confidence. Describing the book, however--a work that covers decades, spans oceans, has sections in Japanese, Greek and Old Norse, and touches on chess strategy and Laplace transformations, whatever they are--may be tricky, so hang on tight...
...winter, to escape their unheated flat, they ride the Circle Line all day long, Ludo's stroller laden with books--these would include The Odyssey in Greek, some Japanese primers and The House at Pooh Corner. The pair are happy to sit and study; for Sibylla, the hardship comes with the stream of comments from other passengers astonished to see a child reading Greek. "Faced with officious advice feel almost overwhelming temptation to say:...'I know, I'll take the Tube, somebody on the Tube will be able to advise me...Thank you so much,'" Sibylla notes...
...American Activities in 1947 whether he was or had ever been a member of the Communist Party, the screenwriter Ring Lardner Jr. objected to the question and finally said, "I could answer it, but if I did, I would hate myself in the morning." It became a memorable line, and it makes an appropriate title for Lardner's breezy, engaging memoir, I'd Hate Myself in the Morning (Nation Books; 198 pages; $22.95). Reams have been written about the Hollywood blacklist and the witch hunts of the late '40s and early '50s. Lardner was a notable victim of all this...