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Previously, Gordimer used her numerous novels and short stories as a forum to speak against the now-defunct apartheid in her native South Africa. Her attacks were so controversial that some of her books were banned by South African authorities. As opposed to many of Gordimer’s earlier works, race is not a central issue in The Pickup. Instead, the importance of social class distinctions is threaded throughout the novel...
...look like patriotism had totally eclipsed irony in the things-that-define-us-as-American category. In the immediate aftermath of the attacks, once it became clear that it was time for grandiose societal assessment, Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair and co-founder of Spy magazine (a now-defunct ’80s irony pioneer), and the rest of the Carter bandwagon declared irony defunct. Carter announced to the media magazine Inside.com in mid-September that “it’s the end of the age of irony.” Which made sense as a prognostication...
Representatives of both the alumni of the Sigma Chi fraternity and the alumni of the now-defunct Pi Eta fraternity say the two parties are close to reaching a settlement over the ownership of the building that Sigma Chi has used as a clubhouse since 1996. However, neither side would provide any details of proposed settlements...
...other words, for every 25 shares you owned before the split, you'd now only own one. The resulting drought should leave Webvan standing $2 tall. Above water, but at what cost? The one major precedent for a reverse stock split in the dotcom world is not encouraging. Now-defunct drugstore PlanetRx.com tried a 1 to 8 swap last November, which kept the angry hounds of NASDAQ at bay for just two months. It went into liquidation last March...
...once it is embedded in your computer it is programmed to "phone home" to its corporate master. RealNetworks' RealJukebox program was found in 1999 to be sending back information to headquarters about what music a user listened to. The Federal Trade Commission decided in May that zBubbles, a now defunct online shopping service once owned by Amazon, probably deceived consumers when it told them that the information it collected about a user's Web surfing would remain anonymous...