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41. The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry (2008)
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“Too Big to Fail” is a phrase referring to the idea that in economic regulation, the largest and most interconnected businesses are so large that a government cannot allow them to fail because said failure would have a disastrous effect on the economy.
This means that it might encourage recklessness since the government would intervene (e.g. by bailing out the company) in the event it was about to go out of business.The phrase has also been more broadly applied to refer to a government’s policy to bail out any corporation. It raises the issue of moral hazard in business operations.
The term is back to central stage since the start of the financial meltdown. The most important US company referred to as too big to fail is American International Group (AIG).
Some critics see the policy as wrong and counterproductive. They think big banks should be left to fail if their risk management was not effective.For example, in the international context, the “too big to fail” policy has been explicitly refuted in the People’s Republic of China.
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American writer. She has written, or collaborated on, 13 books, most of which are novels, but including some poems, short stories and essays. Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize for “literature of social change”, named after the bellwether.
Kingsolver was born in Annapolis, Maryland, spent some of her childhood in Africa where her father was a medical doctor, and grew up near Carlisle, Kentucky.
Kingsolver attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana on a music scholarship, studying classical piano. Eventually, however, she changed her major to biology.
In the late 1970s, Kingsolver lived in a number of places, including Greece, France, and Tucson, Arizona, working variously as an archaeological digger, copy editor, housecleaner, biological researcher and translator. She earned a Master’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. She then took a job as a science writer for the university. The science writing led to some freelance feature writing and journalism. In 1986, she won an Arizona Press Club award for outstanding feature writing. Her first novel, The Bean Trees, was published in 1988.
British author Robert Holdstock passed away at the age of 61, on 29th November 2009, following his collapse with an E. coli infection. He was in ICU since the 18th of November. Born 2 August 1948 in Kent, he was best known for the Mythago Woodseries, which won him the World Fantasy Award in 1985.
Holdstock earned a Bacherlor of Science in Applied Zoology in 1970 from the University College of North Wales, and a Masters of Science in Medical Zoology in 1971. After that, he conducted research at the Medical Research Council until 1974 while also doing some part-time writing. He became a full-time writer from 1975/6 . His first published story, Pauper’s Plot, appeared in New Worlds magazine in 1968, and his first novel, a sci-fi called Eye Among the Blind, appeared in 1976.
During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s Holdstock wrote many fantasy and science fiction novels along with a number of short stories, most of which were published under one of his pseudonyms which include Robert Faulcon, Chris Carlsen, Richard Kirk, Robert Black, Ken Blake, and Steven Eisler. His breakthrough fantasy novel Mythago Wood was published during 1984 under his true name.
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Thus begins the Ryhope Wood series. The novel was subsequently followed by Lavondyss (1988), The Bone Forest (1991), The Hollowing (1993), Merlin’s Wood (1994), Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (1997) and Avilion (July 2009). He also created the Merlin Codex series with titles such Celtika (2001),The Iron Grail (2002), and The Broken Kings (2007).
Throughout the years, Holdstock has won four British Science Fiction Awards: 1982′s Short Fiction for “Mythago Wood“, 1985′s Novel for Mythago Wood, 1989′s Novel for Lavondyss, and 1994′s Short Fiction for “The Ragthorn (which he co-wrote with Garry Kilworth). That last story also earned a World Fantasy Award in 1992.
He will be deeply missed by his partner, Sarah Biggs, their families, friends and fans.
(Source : Robert Holdstock official website, Wikipedia)
Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing world’s most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West.
Barry Wain, a former editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, is Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. An Australian journalist who has lived in Asia for 37 years, he is author of The Refused, an account of the refugee outflow from Indochina after the Vietnam War.
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