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...Just a note on a small mistake made in the printing of the generous encouragement Gingrich offered our President and Congress. "Commentary" ran at the top. It should have been "Political Advertisement," should it not? Constance McCutcheon, MUNICH, GERMANY...
...part of my moonlighting experiment, I pushed through an article with a few factual errors. A copy editor bounced it back with a terse note to check my sourcing. When I strayed too far from an assignment's parameters, I was asked for a rewrite. All told, 40% of the 20 or so articles I submitted required some additional work before they got posted. My deliberate haste and sloppiness with Demand stories have led copy editors to give me, on a five-point scale, a pretty crummy 3.5 for grammar and 3.7 for research. If my scores...
Foot, though a sparkling orator with a brilliant intellect, did his part to contribute to Labour's defeat, pushing a left-wing manifesto that pledged unilateral nuclear disarmament and nationalization of the banks. It was dubbed by a colleague "the longest suicide note in history." The 2008 global financial crisis would finally force a partial implementation of the second policy, but Foot's legacy cannot be measured in concrete achievements such as laws or processes. His was the very British triumph of the underdog, of the nice guy who came in last and in so doing retained his principles...
...with a handful of sellers hawking mainly tofu, now dispatches 100 vendors into the different parts of Tokyo each day, selling everything from fermented beans and tofu pudding to soy-milk soup and tofu for pets. With wooden carts stacked high with turquoise crates, and a signature two-note trumpet call, the sellers stand out. Many of them moonlight as artists, and they are encouraged to develop their own vending persona. "Customers want to talk to a real person," says Kakinuma Daisuke, a Table-Mono financial officer. "At supermarkets, you are pushed through a queue and then must deal with...
...everything,” O’Connor said. “I’ve been working towards this goal since I was a little kid, and definitely since I stepped on campus at Harvard, so it’s nice to end my college career on that note. Just talking about it puts a huge smile on my face...