Word: tellingly
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Vengeance is sweet, but Experience (Hyperion; 406 pages; $23.95), Amis' riveting memoir of his troubled past, wastes little space settling old scores. "Why should I tell the story of my life?" he asks rhetorically at the outset, and answers immediately, "I do it because my father is dead now, and I always knew I would have to commemorate him. He was a writer and I am a writer; it feels like a duty to describe our case--a literary curiosity which is also just another instance of father...
Other numbers tell an even more intriguing success story. Only 6% of Indian immigrants live below the poverty line, vs. 31% of Mexicans and 8% of immigrants from Britain. Fewer than 1% use public assistance...
Even George H.W. Bush--the patriarch of the namesakes--is getting into the swing of things. Sources tell TIME that the former President, who once famously referred to his Mexican-American grandchildren, including George P., as "the little brown ones," recently urged his son's campaign to hold a national Hispanic event aimed at luring Hispanics away from the Democrats. The way things are going, the Republican Convention will be a fiesta de la familia...
...months now, Microsoft has been investing its entire stock of faith in the Court of Appeals. Ask the company's attorneys, and they will tell you with unshakable confidence that the three-judge review panel of the appeals court, whoever those judges may be, will see the flaws in Jackson's reasoning and strike down all elements of his decision--not just the split-'em-up remedy but the findings of law and fact...
...Tell me what that was like...