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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Lately, whenever anybody asks me how I'm doing, I find myself, as if by reflex, parroting the phrase, "Oh, struggling." Or I might mumble, "You know, just about surviving the crunch." Even allowing for the fact that I am not known for being a ray of sunshine at the best of times, I have never lived in a time when prospects seemed so bleak. The yellow brick road of prosperity has finally turned into...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Lately, whenever anybody asks me how I'm doing, I find myself, as if by reflex, parroting the phrase, "Oh, struggling." Or I might mumble, "You know, just about surviving the crunch." Even allowing for the fact that I am not known for being a ray of sunshine at the best of times, I have never lived in a time when prospects seemed so bleak. The yellow brick road of prosperity has finally turned into...
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Gossip Craze (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
a prominent british novelist tim lott has branded the orange prize for fiction britains leading literary award for women sexist and discriminatory and wants it to be scrappedlott who won the rival whitbread first novel award in 2000 for white city blues said a lot of writers he had spoken to find the prize ridiculous and unfairquoti know that i face derision and ridicule but a lot of...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
After the last traumatic weeks spent watching the near-fatal buffeting of the world economic system, it was fascinating to read of the commensurate bruising endured by the mind of one of the principal architects of that system, the neo-liberal former head of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan.
