A Century Ago, Petroleum - What We

Life Without Oil, In Fact, Would Be So Different That It Is Frightening To Contemplate. We Are Addicted, And It Is No Comfortable Addiction.

The Rise To Prominence Of The Saudi Novel In Arabic Is The Great Man-bites-dog Of Recent World Literature. Saudi Arabia Is A Country Without A Free Press, Where European Styles And Forms Are Distrusted And Where The Female Half Of The Population Became Literate Only In This Generation.

Even Before He Came To Power In 1997, Gordon Brown Promised To Change The Accounts To Parliament From Simple Litanies Of Cash In And Cash Out, To A More Commercial System That Took Notice Of The Public Property The Departments Were Using. This System Is Known As Resource Accounting.

Financial Crises Are Like Fireworks: They Illuminate The Sky Even As They Go Pop.

To Make A Love Story, You Need A Couple Of Young People, But To Reflect On The Nature Of Love, You're Better Off With Old Ones. That Is A Fact Of Life And Literature - And Of The Novel Ever Since It Fell In Love With Love In The 18th Century.