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More frustrating for the reader is that the book is really a collection of papers Schliefer wrote between 1993 and 2005, with an introduction and a conclusion thrown on the ends. And it feels like a collection of papers, not a unified whole. A chapter on the unofficial economy in 1997 is followed by a chapter on legal reform in 1996, which is followed by a chapter comparing federalism in China and Russia in 2001. Each chapter does well on its own, but Shleifer does not convince the reader that one has to slog through all of them to fully...
...Crimson rally ended, however, when pinch runner Winkeller was thrown out at second trying to steal. Meunier then struck out the next batter and induced a groundout from the last batter to close out the game...
Prosecutors contended that Io Nachtwey was raped, stabbed to death, and then thrown in the Charles River on Nov. 3, 2001 by the defendants to send a message to her friends, who had refused to join the robbery gang allegedly run by the defendants...
...learning all kinds of new things at what seemed to me like an unprecedented rate. I was learning, and still am learning lessons every day about what we think of as "emotional intelligence"--how to understand and manage one's own and others' feelings. And I didn't get thrown so much by distractions, because there were so many, and I got used to them...
When she falls asleep at the library she worries that she will be caught: “I will promptly be expelled and all notions of my intelligence thrown out the window. I will have to move to Key West and mop floors while living in a trailer with a guy named Bubba.” Perhaps this moment is supposed to be an ironic comment on the meaningless life of the over-privileged Ivy Leaguer. But it shouldn’t be a perhaps. This girl goes to Yale, she goes shopping for fun, and she writes...