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...Baumond, a small bed and breakfast fifteen minutes from Freedom Square. As everyone else was slipping in to the high threadcount sheets at the sleek and thoroughly modern Courtyard Marriot, I was being shown in to what looked like aunt Edna's room. A bed, a desk and armoire fit snugly into the space. I was happy I was only staying there for a few hours. "Probably not a lot of wi-fi here," I joked to myself looking at the wash-pail-sized tub (sans shower curtain...
...wasn't going to have web shooters," Story says. "It was like a march on Washington. But the spirit of Spider-Man was captured, and so they relinquished that fight. I'm kind of in the same boat. It's about trying to capture the spirit. I can't fit 40 years of comic books into two hours...
Perhaps we can acquit Friedman for this sentence that doesn’t fit. But we cannot let him off the hook for his more serious transgression of reducing globalization to business. In totality, “The World is Flat” is an amusing demystification of multinational corporations and consultant-speak. But it falls short of a forceful theory of a new age characterized by the equal access of diverse populations to the global economy. In the end, if the world truly is flat—whatever that really means—then its two dimensions...
Sometime in the misty past, most of us glommed onto the idea that life progresses neatly from one phase to another. A midlife crisis seemed to fit naturally into this scheme, somewhere around, oh, 47. Now it's as if the pages of Gail Sheehy's Passages have been put through a blender. You can have a baby at any age from 15 to 50. You may find yourself back in school at 30, 40 or 60. And that's partly because you can be put out to pasture by your employer at any age at all. University of Minnesota...
...likened it to a sparse grammar of nouns and verbs and a limited vocabulary that is presented “in such a deft way that it will help you understand any language you wish to understand and any language will fit into...