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Even when Liz Berkery scored the first overtime goal for Harvard, Maryland didn't quit. The Terps proceeded to tie the game at 10, and then seized the lead...
...Terps refused to quit...
...about themselves -- and deaf to anything beyond the echoes of self-consciousness. Novels, particularly Victorian triple-deckers, once made room for the outside world, for the ways that history, politics, economics, etc., impinged on the lives of ordinary people. Are such narratives impossible now, or have most novelists simply quit paying attention to current events...
Horror stories are easy to find. Eastern Airlines had a net worth of more than $1 billion when it entered Chapter 11 in 1989. But there was little left for creditors by the time Eastern exhausted $400 million trying to remain aloft before it quit flying last year. Manville Corp. filed a 1982 petition solely to escape $2 billion of liability suits brought by defendants who claimed to have been harmed by the firm's asbestos products. The next year Frank Lorenzo steered Continental Airlines into bankruptcy, allegedly to break union contracts. But the tactic could not save Continental...
Will recently quit work and sold the rights to his artificial intelligence expert system called First Class. Now he is "unemployed," although one gathers that the proceeds from the sale are enough to support him. Nailing rafters in the garage, he looked as comfortable with a hammer as he probably does with a keyboard...