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Some fans wondered why, over a half-century, the acutely perceptive, humane, funny writer Grace Paley, above, published just three books of short stories. The mother of two and self-described "combative pacifist," who said she was too "interruptible" to write a novel, had other equally important stuff to do. She was a visible political agitator, visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War, rallying antinuke protesters, and handing out antiwar leaflets on her Greenwich Village street corner. Among the first writers to celebrate the lives of ordinary mothers and wives--with her pitch-perfect ear for the Yiddish-tinged dialogue...
...modern mortgage industry consists of several sectors, some regulated tightly by the feds and others covered by only a porous patchwork of state oversight. The least regulated are the independent mortgage lenders, which sell the loans they write to Wall Street or to one of those government-sponsored enterprises with a funny name--Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae. Some of these lenders are perfectly respectable. Others, such as subprime biggies New Century Financial and American Home Mortgage, are now bankrupt...
...calls from abroad and stopped giving interviews to foreign media. "I'm nervous," I confessed in June to an official at the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which oversees the work of foreign journalists. "The red lines have all shifted, and I can't figure out what to write that won't get me in trouble." The official sighed, advised me to report as I had for years--honestly but with caution--and talked of the concerns swirling in the halls of government. "The Western media are distorting the image of Iran," he said. "Why does no one write...
...have to say up front that I'm cringing as I write this part of the e-mail because I'm not at all comfortable with the impression I may be trying to control anyone's speech or with any implication that I don't trust everyone to act in the program's best interests,” he wrote. “I just want all of us in Expos to be able to get on with the interesting projects and jobs we want to do without the static or rumors that could hamper our work...
...were a Marshall scholar at Oxford University in England. You write that your life began to unravel there. What happened...