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...move that really puts "Suspended in Language" beyond rote, educational biography is the very literary manner in which Ottaviani has centered the book on a theme of the power of language. The title becomes the key. At first it seems a small joke in reference to Bohr's logorrheaic writings, whose impenetrability became legendary. But gradually Ottaviani builds on Bohr's relationship with language. Near the end, the authors take a bold leap beyond the "fourth wall," using the comic language itself as the embodiment of Bohr's ideas. In a breathtaking moment, Bohr points to the gutter between panels...
...operating profit. IAC also owns LendingTree, dating service Match.com local online resource CitySearch and the largely offline cash generators Ticketmaster and Home Shopping Network (HSN). Diller's strategy: use the cash from Ticketmaster and HSN to promote his online ambitions, and be there as consumers migrate from all manner of traditional services to the Web. "We fundamentally believe that more and more things are going online," Diller says. "We are experts in bringing businesses online and we're just going to keep doing it category by category, hopefully to infinity...
Calvin's catechism included the familiar Ten Commandments--which, with their injunctions against theft, murder, adultery and lying, are themselves effective social organizers. Added to that were admonitions to pay taxes, perform civic duties, behave in a civil manner and submit to the authority of magistrates. "You must understand religions very thoroughly in relation to their environments," says Wilson. "And one problem for Calvin was to make his city function...
...filming). She must reassure the enraged and borderline-suicidal Kynston who must now content himself with playing the bawdy drinking houses of working-class London where he is asked to “show us yer tits” with alarming frequency. Danes, in her characteristically doe-eyed manner, comforts him with the inexplicable (and not at all comforting) adage that he’d “make a better man than any woman...
...response to a debate within the Bush administration over what interrogation techniques were acceptable, President Bush stated that prisoners at Guanatanamo should be treated “humanely and, to the extent appropriate with military necessity, in a manner consistent with” the Geneva Conventions. We disagree. We believe that prisoners should be treated in a manner consistent with the Geneva Conventions, period...