Word: storiesã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...years of microfinance has provided reassuring success stories??from Yunus’ own in Bangladesh to the 3,200 microcredit institutions that had sprouted up around the world by the end of 2004. It is a strategy that American corporations are slowly catching onto. Many see it as a way for companies to signify their commitment to social responsibility, highlighting a humane effort to change their ruthless reputations. And, it may be successful at helping to do just that...
...reasons Pac’s music is so compelling is because he tells powerful stories??about a pregnant, unwed teenager (“Brenda’s Got A Baby”), about a friendship that falls apart because of drugs (“If My Homie Calls”), about a criminal called “America” that is charged with the murder, robbery, and false imprisonment of black people (“Words of Wisdom?...
...said. “[But] it’s hardly the end of her writing career.”‘TOO MANY’ AND ‘TOO EXTENSIVE’Novelist Rushdie, whose “Haroun and the Sea of Stories?? recently was added to the list of novels that Viswanathan allegedly lifted from, criticized the sophomore yesterday.“I do not accept the idea that this could have been accidentally or innocently done,” Rushdie told CNN-IBN, an Indian-based network. “The passages...
...several of the stories??and in the fictional “Taskbook for the New Nation,” from which he has lifted the epigraphs to the book’s four sections—Saunders also draws on the semantically void self-inflations of the vocabulary of the War on Terror...
...appears to have borrowed passages from Salman Rushdie’s “Haroun and the Sea of Stories?? and Meg Cabot’s “The Princess Diaries.” The New York Times also reported similarities between “Opal Mehta” and Sophie Kinsella’s “Can You Keep a Secret?” In each of the cases, the passages in question are short but contain similar rhymes and descriptions...