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...flashback, Stevens tells a chilling story of how his infant daughter was poisoned and how he faced the prospect of cutting open her throat to save her, should she stop breathing. Although he averted the worst, Stevens knew he had the capacity to perform surgery on her himself. Egoyan presents this choice by juxtaposing the gleaming knife with the calm infant...
...vital and innovative in their teaching and scholarship. Nevertheless, its anomalous and increasingly laughable tenuring procedures also make it a haven for the latter type of scholar described above, a critical mass of whom generally thwart the appointment of the former type. Until this situation changes--a prospect about which I remain highly doubtful--any talented younger scholar with a viable alternative would be well advised to decline a junior Faculty appointment at Harvard; for as far as moral support, professional development and intellectual nurturance for junior Faculty are concerned, there is no "there" there, and there probably never will...
...reads like a chapter of the Iliad: Unisem, dead of obsolescence; Advanced Memory Systems, killed by management; Mostek, slaughtered in a Japanese RAM invasion. Intel has endured crippling chip recessions, one Federal Trade Commission probe and a nasty public flogging over its flawed Pentium chips in 1994. Now the prospect of cheaper computers using cheaper chips, not to mention the threat of economic troubles in Asia, looms. But no firm does more reliable (or profitable) work in the tiny molecular spaces that Intel has colonized. It is the essential firm of the digital...
...Prospect of mad-cow disease...
Judgment Day of the Jackal Carlos the Jackal has also been convicted, and sentenced to life in prison. He too faces the prospect of further trials. But he still has his revolutionary gusto...