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Despite the common perception, the Shooting Club uses shotguns, not rifles. A rifle's ammunition can travel up to three miles in distance, while the bead-size pellets of shotguns travel no more than 40 or 50 yards, according to Jobin...
Olivetti, a failed Italian typewriter maker reincarnated as a communications firm, stuns Europe's stock markets with a dramatic, $65 billion offer to take over Telecom Italia, a telephone behemoth seven times its size. A cozy merger between Societe Generale and Paribas, two of France's leading banks, is thrown into disarray when a rival Paris financial house proposes to swallow them both. A battle for control of Italian fashion giant Gucci turns venomous when a French billionaire proclaims that he has snatched the company from the clutches of a rival French raider...
...probably the largest private common room on campus," says Daniel A. Coll '99 of his coveted suite. Size is the main draw. The residents pack people onto the large dance floor in the suite's common room...
After passing through a walk-through bedroom, another sacrifice, the room opens into the "study." the same size and dimensions as the parlor, this room house the residents' desks and is a quieter place for talking during parties...
...arguable that the size of Hemingway'scontribution to the writer's canon is unimportant:with some dissents, the majority of authorshonoring Hemingway's birth contended thatHemingway's gift to the craft of writing, and thusto literature, is exclusively "stylistic." NadineGordimer expressed in the conference's openingremarks what would be repeated a hundred times:Hemingway's was the art of omission andimplication rather than explication. Writers takefrom Hemingway the Biblical repetition, the artfulnonsequiter, the pacing, the avoidance of emotionthat brings on tears, the distanced voice. Theshort stories and A Farewell are enough,alone, to teach writers about this writing ofomission, writing...