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Rorty thus misses a fundamental point: novelists do not flee from the lofty abstractions of philosophers to the microcosm of the contingent because they are forsaking the universal, but rather because they believe the contingent is the only true portal into the universal. They believe that the one humdrum Dublin day in the life of a middle-aged, Jewish cuckold who defecates, masturbates, feeds animals, attends a funeral, remembers his dead son, and kisses the ass of his adulterous wife can speak not just to one perverse character’s experience but to the experience of humanity...
...surprising, then, that companies wanting to enter the fray see acquisition as a viable option. In early 2005, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), an independent Norwegian foundation that's a global provider of risk management, acquired CC Technologies (CCT), a corrosion-engineering company with a strong research division, based in Dublin, Ohio. With 2006 revenues of $20.6 million--a $10 million increase over its 2003 sales--CCT had been courted by several suitors. DNV communications manager Svein Inge Leirgulen describes the deal as having "huge business potential." Neil Thompson--now CCT's chairman and chief officer, and a co-owner prior...
...working to secure the corporate investment needed to build wireless Internet networks that use fledgling WiMAX technologies and, more often, mature wi-fi platforms. Singapore is "unwiring" using tax revenue. Macedonia is doing the same with the help of U.S. aid. Municipalities as diverse as Prague, Paris, Norwich, Dublin and Chicago are either building or attempting to build wireless networks with public funds...
...insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, Dublin...
...insights and parallels with other mystics of the church, especially John of the Cross, come through effortlessly. As for Mother Teresa, she took a vow of poverty, in her case manifested as spiritual poverty. She demonstrated that our greatest crosses turn into our greatest strengths. Tom Prendeville, DUBLIN The face of Mother Teresa on your cover said it all. It revealed that what she wrote about the darkness in her soul for almost 50 years was the truth. Thank you for showing us the outstanding portrait of that much admired, mysterious nun. It seems as though the sadness...