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Women have been debating for a generation how best to balance work and home life, but somehow each new chapter starts a new fight, and Hewlett's book is no exception. Back in 1989, when Felice Schwartz discussed in the Harvard Business Review how to create more flexibility for career women with children (she never used the phrase Mommy Track herself), her proposals were called "dangerous" and "retrofeminist" because they could give corporations an excuse to derail women's careers. Slow down to start a family, the skeptics warned, and you run the risk that you will never catch...
...creditors include some of Germany's biggest banks as well as foreign media empires, such as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset. The law gives new management 90 days to come up with an operating plan under "self-administration," similar to the Chapter 11 bankruptcy provisions in the U.S. "There are more possibilities to save the firm than under the old law," says attorney Peter Neu, who specializes in bankruptcies. "They don't have to destroy and liquidate the company." As a result, banks and other creditors may be asked to swap their...
...dark cloud rolled over the indie comix horizon this past week when LPC Group, a retail bookstore distributor with many comix clients filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Topnotch publishers such as Drawn and Quarterly, Oni, and Highwater Books, who exist on very slim margins, found themselves suddenly unable to collect monies owed them by LPC. Top Shelf, the Marietta, Georgia-based publisher of "From Hell," the comicbook inspiration for the Johnny Depp movie of last year, was compelled to release an extraordinary electronic plea for $20,000 in direct purchases to save it from going under...
...made-for-TV shootout is just one chapter in a remarkable biography. "When they read his resume, I couldn't believe it," said a senior White House aide. "It just kept going." Carmona grew up in Harlem and dropped out of high school at 17. He joined the Army and served as a medic in Vietnam, eventually becoming a decorated Green Beret. After finishing his Army service and earning his GED, he went to college and medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. In 1985 he moved to Tucson and started the area's first trauma-care program...
...novella is divided into four chapters, with the last taking place years later when David is a grown man in a romantic relationship of his own. The real acheivement of Möring’s writing is realized in this final chapter. In a few short pages, Möring describes with every nuance how experiences and recollections in the narrative of twelve-year-old David add up to make adult David, showing how relationships, to self and others, evolve...