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...certain people like to write, language is always social, a structure that man is forever bound up within. To read you have to enter a world of intersubjectivity, where your understanding and the novelist’s mix and meld. Even when you make your way through a literary land as fantastically removed as Middle Earth or Tlön, you’re still walking in the middle of social discourse. So, Ms. Miller, I don’t know how you can really read solitarily, but you can try if you like.— Sanders Bernstein...
...bankruptcy court in eastern Michigan, though, is determined to do what it can to land a possible GM bankruptcy, as well as a potential Chrysler case. In December the court's six judges signed off on new rules that, among other things, allow the chief judge to divvy up the workload of a "very large, complex case of national significance" to keep such a bankruptcy running smoothly and quickly...
...readers on the prowl, FlyBy has broken down Harvard’s dating scene using Porter’s Five Forces. (For you uninitiated humanities concentrators out there, this is a rubric for industry analysis. Very popular among MBAs and budding business people.) Find out more on how to land a life long partner after the jump...
...Competing female firms often lack the necessary resources (namely, time) to sufficiently compete and enhance their marketing strategies. Although disputes between competing female firms over the loyalties of particular customers do arise, the competition to initially land a costumer is low and often unnecessary...
...doesn't help that Somalis have a marked aversion to foreign forces. Fiercely conservative and suspicious of outsiders, the country bristled under the failed U.N. peacekeeping mission in the early 1990s and the Ethiopia occupation over the past few years. "The sea and the land are the same," says Abdinaser Biyokulule, a pirate recruiter in the pirate haven of Bossaso. "Foreign troops did not succeed on land, so they will not succeed in the sea either...