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But like Grass himself, what once seemed a masterwork has been overtaken by history.
But the old rap has been overtaken by a new rap--that Brown is fielding a "B team" of writers because she's no longer paying top rates.
Anyone who claims to fully understand the economic disaster that has overtaken Asia proves, by that very certainty, that he . The truth is that we have never seen anything quite like this, and that everyone--from the country doctors at the International Monetary Fund and the Treasury Department who must prescribe economic medicine to those of us who have the luxury of irresponsibility--is groping frantically for models and metaphors to make sense of this thing.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported Monday that the Australians had overtaken the Canadians to become the Western world's second-largest share owners, after the Americans.
In clinical terms, Pollock had a productive manic phase, and he was overtaken by black dog in the days before anti-depressants.