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...many significant works that take a ground-level view of the country, rather than a bird's-eye one, have also been appearing. I am thinking, for example, of Fast Boat to China (2007). This is a lively account of the human side of Shanghai-based outsourcing by Andrew Ross, who usefully dubs his study a foray into "scholarly reporting" - a term for books that, as he puts it, have "mined the overlap between ethnography and journalism...
...novel is the quintessential form of the American mystery story, and for the past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre's lineage of hard-boiled icons, the baton passed from Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler to Ross Macdonald and finally to Parker, whose mononymous detective, Spenser, long ago entered the pantheon inhabited by Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer. Although Parker's body of work included books featuring other protagonists, it is Spenser who will endure and whose adventures will be read in the next century...
...Davidowitz is predicting a double-dip recession, and if that happens, he sees little improvement in job growth, the credit markets or consumer confidence in 2010. "I don't see any increase [in retail sales] this year. However, he expects value retailers, such as Walmart, Kohl's, Target, TJX, Ross and Costco, as well as certain specialty stores, such as Bed, Bath & Beyond and Urban Outfitters, to see higher-than-average sales growth...
Sophomore Niall Janney captured the 400-yard individual medley and the 200-yard butterfly, with a 4:04.08 finish in the 400-yard race. Janney touched the wall in 1:52.48 in the butterfly event, followed by freshman Ryan Cutter and sophomore Ross Ford for a 1-2-3 finish...
...don’t think we could’ve drawn it up any better,” Bravo explained. “To have guys like Andre and Ross LaBauex [the University of Virginia midfielder who the team selected right after Akpan] drop to the second round, you have to take advantage. We think we’ve struck gold with out first two picks...