Word: publishers
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...written in a loose terza rima: still carefully turned, but driven by narrative rather than the internal demands of metre. It seemed entirely appropriate after the reading when, over a glass of pallid Chardonnay, he told me that “strangely, I found it easier to publish this poem in America...it won’t be coming out in Britain until September...
...most-wanted list for two years in connection with the 1998 killing of Dr. Barnett Slepian. As the U.S Department of Justice began extradition proceedings a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled that, on grounds of free speech, The Nuremberg Trials website can continue to publish a "hit list" with the names and addresses of abortion doctors. Slepian was one of several abortion doctors whose names appeared on the site - his was crossed out after his murder...
Standard & Poor's, the service that grades the financial health of corporations, is turning its magnifying glass on schools. This summer the firm will publish an online analysis of school districts in Michigan and Pennsylvania, using six categories: student achievement (including scores on state and national tests), learning environment (facilities and class size), finances (spending and revenue sources), return on resources (how spending has affected student performance), fiscal outlook (projections for school spending and federal and local funding), and demographic indicators (including household income, parental education and employment rates). The site, standardandpoors.com is expected to be a politics-free comparative...
...college newspapers around the country, listing 10 reasons why reparations are "a bad idea for blacks." Predictably, a rumpus ensued on campuses from Duke to Wisconsin. At Brown University in Rhode Island--whose founders include a prominent slave trader--students offended by the Brown Daily Herald's decision to publish the ad seized all 4,000 copies of the paper. At the University of California, Berkeley, a forum on reparations degenerated into a shouting match after Horowitz delivered a characteristically pugnacious speech. But once they have finished railing at Horowitz, reparations supporters ought to applaud him. The fuss he started...
...really blame analysts for what happened with VA Linux Systems? The software company filed to go public at $12 a share in 1999. Before any analyst had a chance to publish a word, demand enabled underwriter Credit Suisse First Boston to raise the IPO to $30. Maybe it should have stuck to the initial price, which in theory anyway was based on some valuation model. But it scarcely mattered...