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...said, always seem off, because the image they present (horizontally) reverses the image one typically sees in the mirror. The inevitable dissymetries of the human face make this reversal slightly disconcerting. And perhaps this is the best way to explain the differences I find coming to my ink-smudged text on Monday mornings, coming as a reader, no longer approaching from the inside...
Strange as it is, this brings the words full circle. Because the presence of a photograph demands of the text what headlines and ink cannot provide. Pictures give the words an immediacy and a historical presence; no longer disembodied facts, no longer abstract referents, these opinions inhabit particular conjunctions of time and knowledge. As such, they require a response which can only be timely...
...perfectly, to balance anecdote and irony in the opening with structure and scholarship throughout. Suddenly, the folk who have been saying, "Oh yeah, I did a bunch over the summer" also are working feverishly, having been told their first chapter draft looked like it had been printed in red ink. Work hard, but move on. You'll throw all this out in the end, but it will get you on the right track...
There has been much ink spilled recently over the priorities the next Harvard president should have and how he or she should lead the University into the 21st century. With an endowment approaching $20 billion, the possibilities seem endless. Harvard stands in a unique position in the course of human events. Using the vast resources of the University, we can claim responsiblity for one of the seminal events in human history: the colonization of Mars...
...Germany, where its 95 stores command only a 1.1% share of the food-sales market, Wal-Mart is floundering in red ink. The company won't say what its German losses total-analysts peg them at a whopping $200 million a year-but admits profitability is at least two years away. In Britain, Asda is a successful, moneymaking enterprise, but analysts doubt it can realize the ambitious targets set by Wal-Mart to cover the high price of admission. In its fiscal year just before the acquisition, Asda had operating profits of $702 million, and Wal-Mart vows to double...