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...this recession has been backward from the beginning. Record layoffs have not stalled a torrid housing market. Those who keep their jobs are nonetheless getting hit hard this time because their bonuses, their profit sharing and even their salaries are being cut. Perhaps most revealing: technology, the industry that was supposed to end boom-bust cycles, made this one even worse...
When evil performs in public, it usually comes onstage in full makeup, with lurid lighting and horrid effects, riding a horse backward. Here we see evil backstage, with its makeup off--the smirking, kicked-back thuggishness, say, of gangsters twirling pasta and gloating over the success of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE No memoir about caring for elderly parents is quite like this one, a piercingly funny book without a joke in it. Dorothy Gallagher opens with the sickroom of Bella and Izzy, her Russian-Jewish mother and father, then takes their stories backward in time through the chapters of the American immigrant experience. No filial whining, just keen observations and a steady affection...
...Came Into My Inheritance No memoir about caring for elderly parents is quite like this one, a piercingly funny book without a joke in it. Dorothy Gallagher opens with the sickroom of Bella and Izzy, her Russian-Jewish mother and father, then takes their stories backward in time through the chapters of the American immigrant experience. No filial whining, just keen observations and a steady affection...
...Improving information technology and records management, woefully backward in recent years, are Mueller's top priority. Bob Chiradio, who, Mueller boasts, "builds computers for fun," will become executive assistant director for administration, supervising the modernization effort. But Mueller has also created the post of chief technology officer for Bob Dies, a retired IBM executive, and he's looking to hire a top IT expert from the outside...