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...present state of mystery writing does not foretoken a renaissance. By the customary criteria applied to genre fiction--the number of active practitioners whose works have graduated to mainstream best-seller lists or to critical appraisal as "serious" literature--the mystery can offer only Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald and perhaps Julian Symons. Dozens of purported successors to Christie have been proclaimed, largely on the basis of gender, but none has sustained anything like her productivity or cunning. Every publishing season brings a promising debut, but the vast majority of these writers never again produce a book with the freshness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood, Blonds and Badinage | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...addition to GPA, the criteria for selection, according to the Phi Beta Kappa website, includes “excellence, reach, originality, and rigor” and “depth of study and breadth of intellectual interest...

Author: By J. MAX Rogoski, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Elects 24 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Harvard Admissions Criteria: Perfect SAT's, GPA, Legacy status

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Kindergarten Ivy League | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...Admissions Criteria: Potty training, Sharing skills, Legacy status

Author: By Beau C. Robicheaux, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Kindergarten Ivy League | 4/14/2005 | See Source »

...impact of the Marks & Spencer case is likely to be wider and far more costly. Even pending the final ruling, dozens of big companies including BT Group, French bank BNP Paribas and U.S. machinery firm Caterpillar have filed for tax relief in Britain using the same criteria as Marks & Spencer. "This potentially opens the floodgates for claims over the past six years," says Michael Hardwick, a corporate tax partner at Linklaters in London. Simon Whitehead of solicitors Dorsey & Whitney, which is representing Marks & Spencer, says that 70 multinational firms have already signed up for a group action that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The Taxman To Court | 4/10/2005 | See Source »

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