Word: digests
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When you start writing for TIME, you learn that there's you and then there's Nancy Gibbs. She is a rare combination of workhorse and poet, one who can quickly digest information, then deftly contextualize it. The attacks "assume[d] our faith rests on what we can buy and build," she wrote in the hours after Sept. 11, but "that has never been America's true God." Last week the Society of Professional Journalists recognized Gibbs with its award for best magazine writing. It was a bittersweet moment for all who worked on the piece, but we are proud...
...engaged by the public to any considerable extent. There is no social consensus on human reproductive cloning and the debate has not even begun. It would be morally irresponsible of any scientist to create a human clone before politicians, philosophers, and religious leaders have a chance to digest and discuss these issues...
According to the filing, Highfields officials met with members of the Reader’s Digest Board of Directors and requested that the company take a more aggressive stance, including buying back shares and attempting to increase its earnings per share...
According to the filing, on March 26 Highfields also sent a letter to Devita with an even more explicit statement of its intentions, and raised their offer to $5 per share. In addition, the fund said once it had made changes to Reader’s Digest, all shares in the company would be turned into voting shares, thereby relinquishing control of the company to all investors...
Jack Meyer, the president of HMC, which owned nearly $11 million in Reader’s Digest stock as of last quarter independently of Highfields’ investments, also did not return a call for comment...