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...Thank you for your story "Inside the Mind of the CEO President" [NATION, Aug. 5]. I read it as a humor piece. You said President Bush "loves it when the elite are upstaged by the streetwise" because he thinks it reflects his life story. Bush is about as streetwise as Malcolm Forbes Sr. was on his Harley. But when the article went on to credit Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and Bush's Council of Economic Advisers with deep thinking about the economy, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Perhaps George W.'s message on corporate fraud...
After the immediate shock," says best-selling British novelist Iain Banks, "I thought, 'Thank goodness I'm not writing a book at the moment' because you just think, 'What's the point?'" A year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the arts community - including Banks, whose novel Dead Air comes out Sept. 5 - is among those starting to recover from creative numbness. And European screens, stages and pages are starting to see the result. The responses seem to fall into three main categories. The first is epitaph-like memorials of the day itself, such as Anne Nelson's salute...
...That's the kind of fine print that could be lost on most people. Voters in 29 congressional districts - all but five of them Republican - have been hearing radio ads urging them to "thank" their local representative for voting "to add meaningful prescription-drug coverage to Medicare for all seniors." The ads were run by a conservative group called the United Seniors Association and financed by the pharmaceutical lobby - which helped write the House bill...
...Hazim, 17, blew himself up in a Jerusalem suicide attack that wounded five Israelis. As the 47-year-old father of five balances himself on the debris of his home, he looks tired. He is worn by a week of mourning for his son, "who died a martyr, thank God," and for his house. What little sleep he got the previous night at his brother's home, where his family now stays, was disturbed by the sound of three powerful explosions as the Israelis blew up more homes near his village, Beit Jala...
...pharmaceutical company could put it in a pill and sell it at the drugstore, you might, just might, never again have to count calories or wrestle with your willpower. Just pop one of these things before a meal, and your stomach says--entirely on its own--"No, thank you, I've had quite enough...