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Having produced extraordinary works by the likes of Peter Godwin (Mukiwa), Alexandra Fuller (Scribbling the Cat) and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing, Zimbabwe's troubles seem to prove that you need to suffer for your art. But those authors are white, and Zimbabwe is a country of millions of blacks, whose troubles have undoubtedly been worse. So do we really need another memoir by a white Zimbabwean...
...together, whereas one person's health tends to vary independent of the nation's health. Risk to health-insurance companies decreases as the number of policies increases; risk compounds for options writers as their volume increases. Those writing put options have secured small gains for now, but they will suffer multiplied losses across the board should the market tank...
...fallout of failure will begin, and the UC can only blame itself. While its plan may have been well intentioned—improving social space on campus is an important issue—the UC was in over its head and now must accept that its credibility will suffer. Now the campaign will continue under the direction of the Student Community Center Foundation, but with an even slimmer possibility of success, facing the same hurdles as before but with less legitimacy. At the same time, the effort implicitly carries the UC’s stamp of approval, involves UC members...
...Europe's literary bounty. Still, "only some 1% of the books in Europe's national libraries have been digitized so far," Viviane Reding, E.U. Commissioner for Information Society and Media, noted in a joint statement, warning that "if we are too slow to go digital, Europe's culture could suffer in the future." With Google rewriting the book on the way we read, it's time for Europe to catch...
...complied, but urged by friends and patrons, they appealed to the Court of Appeal, which decided in their favor in April this year. That court ruled that McDonald's claim on the Mc prefix had no merit and that since McCurry exclusively sells Indian food, the corporation did not suffer any loss of business from the smaller eatery. McDonald's then applied for leave to appeal to the Federal Court, Malaysia's highest court, but after the application for leave was refused on Tuesday, the company was ordered to pay $2,857 in legal fees to McCurry. "It is expensive...