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...this Independence Day, as America wrestles with decisions about its next move, watching the plebes struggle through their summer makes me sprint a little faster. If they can take seven weeks of hell and come out better people, I can finish my morning run and my country can get through anything...
...soon-to-be-graduates passed by and stared at the protest, Phelps-Roper said: “They’re going to hell. You’re looking at dead people walking...
...costly and generally happens once a decade. The big growth prospects these days are found in the front office: customer-relationship-management (CRM) software, the stuff that helps a retailer tell, for example, whether you're a customer worth pampering. As anyone who has spent hours in customer-service hell knows, these products are not as widely used as they could be: 30% of the FORTUNE 500 has no CRM software. Because it is difficult to operate, front-office software is also a gold mine for consultants. Siebel Systems, one of the larger CRM-software manufacturers, makes...
...travel companion, Dyer is a lively raconteur, the kind of person you'd want to journey with even if the destination was a nihilistic hell. His stories are peppered with amusing asides and deft observations, not just from him but his fellow travelers: "What a strangely consistent country this is," remarks his girlfriend about a Cambodian river that because of flooding, reverses its current twice a year. "Even the river lacks a clear sense of direction." Oddly, Dyer's narrative also loses its sense of direction in the final chapter, just as he reaches what he has described throughout...
...Dogs of Babel lacks is the raw, sobbing rage that powered The Lovely Bones, that left it with ragged edges, that made it howl and that made it great--and that left readers, reviewers and editors alike blinking back shocked tears, shaking our heads and wondering, How the hell did she do that? --By Lev Grossman