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...year old native of Burlington, Vt., Crawford was a sixth-year graduate student in Berkeley’s Classics Department. She taught a course in the department, Latin 100, “Republican Prose,” during the spring semester...
...England White sounds reasonable enough on paper, as it were. So why is it so hard to get through? Early suspicion falls on Carter's prose--his characters unblushingly utter lines like "You can't talk to me that way!" and "It's time for the lies to stop." (Of her deceased economist, Julia thinks--cue English horn--she "had not even said goodbye.") Plot "twists" arrive at the end of every chapter with metronomic regularity. A certain clockwork orderliness befits any work of this genre, but the relentlessness of the surprises becomes deeply unsurprising. New England White is being...
...help books tend to be about lofty ideas, whereas life hacks are about getting things done and solving life's problems with modest solutions," says Merlin Mann, whose 43 Folders blog is one of the most popular life-hacking hubs. In contrast to tomes of lengthy analyses and rambling prose, life hacking boils down self-help to actionable nuggets on subjects that range from workplace negotiations to travel planning. Typical tips? To halve the length of meetings, have people stand, because they won't waste as much time on digressions if they're not seated. Check e-mail hourly...
...journalists have a way of making heroes out of poor managers, as long as they lavishly publish our peerless prose. I've been guilty of it myself. I owe my early career to the largesse of Otis Chandler's Times-Mirror Co. and Alvah Chapman's Knight-Ridder. Believe me, those were swell times. And I watched some great journalism being done-but upstairs those companies were failing to defend their market positions and misunderstanding the future...
...Washington divided government loosens lips; narratives that might never have been told play out as sworn testimony. Some witnesses encase their truths in leaden prose. Not so James Comey, a former Deputy Attorney General, who unspooled a vivid tale in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee about the night in March 2004 when he raced to the hospital to prevent two top White House aides from taking advantage of his critically ill boss, John Ashcroft, in a dispute over the Administration's secret domestic eavesdropping program. Comey was acting Attorney General while Ashcroft was incapacitated by pancreatitis. Like his boss...