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But the really interesting thing about Robertson's problems is the way they highlight the key role played in the recent travails of the world economy by hedge funds--or, to use the terminology preferred by the IMF, "highly leveraged investors."
"Unarmed Warriors" describes the travails of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The story of the travails of a brainy single Jewish female in New York is lauded as a "wry modern fable" (Merle Rubin, the Wall Street Journal ) that shows off Ozick's flair for Isaac Bashevis Singer-style magical realism.
Throughout the story of Brian Arthur's travails, people make the kind of dramatic, pithy remarks that almost never get uttered in real life.
Hardly a word of complaint about her travails with her autistic son.