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...been with. Does that make it hard for you to meet women now? Actually, women are often quite drawn to that sort of thing. A lot of women write me very nice notes about the sexual aspect of my writing, so I don't think that's a problem. Once I'm in the relationship with someone, then people don't really like what I write. That's why my next book is going to be called If You Know Me, Please Don't Read This...
...have a lot of problems with people reading what you write about them and getting upset? Sometimes. One time a girl I'd been dating read something into a piece of fiction that really wasn't there. It has caused occasional problems, and if I do write about other people, I try not to be hurtful. Sometimes I try to mask their identity. This is part of the problem with making art and putting yourself out there...
...private small- and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), which continue to have difficulties securing loans, even though the global credit crisis has abated. The People's Daily newspaper reported in late June that SMEs have received less than 5% of the total volume of loans. That's not just a problem for private business owners. Because their firms do a better job of creating employment than state-owned enterprises, the credit crunch creates headaches for policymakers trying to limit unemployment during the economic downturn. (See pictures of China doing business in Africa...
Vincent Reinhart, a fellow at the right-leaning think tank the American Enterprise Institute and a former top economist at the Federal Reserve, says the problem with the stimulus bill is that it stimulates parts of the economy - like the health-care and alternative-energy industries - that were likely to grow anyway. He believes it would have been better to spend on U.S. manufacturing, where demand is much less certain to resurface and jobs are being shed rapidly. "I don't buy the argument that you just have to give the stimulus package more time," says Reinhart. "By the test...
Granted, some Iranians have little taste for American culture, but they see immigration to the U.S. and Europe as a way to escape the increasingly repressive regime. The brain drain has been a pressing problem for years, but the presidential election and its fallout has quickened its pace. An Iranian student who is supposed to enter a university in New England this fall says that worsening relations may have dashed his chance to secure an American visa (stories abound of Iranians waiting upwards of a year to hear about their applications). "We cannot stay in this country," he says...