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...Levine's reporting. And indeed, since our press release, we have received e-mails from two more students as well as another parent who have also verified Gelman and Jacobovitz's statements. We have so far received nothing from witnesses contesting the article we published on thinkcurrent.com. Lloyd Grove at the Washington Post did not reproduce the Current's article without himself checking the sources. It's interesting that The Crimson chose to emphasize that RNC committee officials flatly denied the account while altogether failing to mention that King herself suggested that her comments had been taken "out of context...
...lack of them. In the early '90s, when flat organization structures, low salaries and the dream of an IPO captivated everybody, one symbol of the democratic capitalist revolution was the wall-less office, which brought together CEOS and corporate grunts in one big, happy, synergistic family. Andy Grove had--and still has--a cubicle; Jay Chiat didn't even have that. The wall-less office ruled...
...story attracted national news attention after Lloyd Grove, a well-known Washington Post political gossip columnist, wrote about in his column...
...appalled and then fascinated. He asks her for more details, and she obliges, spinning stories about the places where the objects she stole originated. As they nestle together in bed, "Avra talked them all over the world." Still later, Zohar discovers some ancient mosaic tiles in his citrus grove, and he and his wife Miriam regale themselves at night by imagining the people--Phoenicians, Judeans, Canaanites, Greeks--who may have walked on these stones...
They stand, thanks to Eve's powers of poetic evocation. This is not a matter of flowery language but rather of powerful metaphors, the fusing of multiple meanings into a few words. Take the title. The Family Orchard refers to a grove of citrus trees in the stories and also alludes to the term "the family tree." An orchard consists of artificially cultivated trees. "People are supposed to graft," a citrus grower tells his sons. "Part of our partnership in creation." This book is an example of the partnership it celebrates...