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Cross, the company that developed the ballpoint pen and the mechanical pencil, opened its first-ever retail store this weekend at Zero Brattle...
...worth spreading, Singh reckons, so he's planning to return to the theme of religious fundamentalism in his next book, a collection of short stories. It's unlikely to be his last work. In a scene from Burial at Sea, a colleague advises the young Bhagwan on how to pen a book about his country: "Write a long love letter of many chapters to India as if it were your sweetheart." Khushwant Singh has had a lifelong love-hate relationship with India?and he seems intent on shooting off a few more bittersweet love letters before he's done...
Before you pen that acidulous letter about how we’re all blind ultra-liberal children of privilege/zealot communists bent on societal destruction, read on: I would actually propose that the Commonwealth “marry” no one—as it has no business trafficking in areas with such religious implication and passion—and rather secure the right of civil union for all of its citizens, leaving the churches/synagogues/temples to decide their definition of marriage...
...pinnacle—of my sports-watching life; we exchanged hugs with the two Sox fans sitting behind us and tried to contain our excitement. The Sox bullpen—led by Mike Timlin and Scott Williamson—was red-hot in the playoffs, and I thought the pen would undoubtedly close down the Yankee threat in the last two innings to put the Sox in the Fall Classic for the first time in seventeen years...
Move over, Martha. As the troubled phone company now known as MCI prepares to emerge from the brink, its erstwhile commander, Bernard Ebbers, may be headed for the pen. Ebbers is the folksy former Mississippi high school basketball coach who hatched WorldCom in 1983 and, through a series of audacious takeovers, built it into the second largest U.S. long-distance operator. But his single-minded pursuit of growth and, in the end, his manic desperation to please Wall Street led him to mastermind, according to his federal criminal indictment last week, an accounting fraud estimated by some experts...