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Exclamation points are an important piece of our written language, and they are perfect when we want to describe something that we would say in a raised voice. Dickens used it quintessentially when the Ghost of Christmas Present bellows, “Come In! And know me better, man!?...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: Missing the Point | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

3. SparkNotes: We don't really have to tell you about this classic website, which saved many of us from having to read Charles Dickens back in high school. But if you realized that watching the movie for "Pride and Prejudice" doesn't actually save you that much time, SparkNotes...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Need a Study Guide? | 5/9/2010 | See Source »

Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola, likes to compare his company's recent performance to the Dickens classic A Tale of Two Cities. Yes, that's got to be the most clichéd literary reference in Western history, but Brown is not a wordsmith. He runs a gadget company. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Motorola's Binary Code | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

Cairo, Ill., sits on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in the heart of a region called Little Egypt for the resemblance it bears to the flat, loamy landscape of the Nile River Delta. Charles Dickens, after a visit in 1842, dubbed Cairo a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Revitalize a Dying Small Town | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

Another impediment is foreclosure law itself, a bureaucratically convoluted field worthy of a Dickens novel. "It's a labor-intensive area of practice," says Paschal. "It involves a ton of paperwork." Yet another is the relatively low pay attorneys usually reap from defending foreclosure clients. Melanca Clark, counsel at the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are All the Foreclosure Lawyers? | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

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