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This lack of profitable "exits" for investors has come just as venture capital groups were hoping finally to recover from the dotcom hangover - since many of the companies funded at the peak of the boom are now mature enough to be sold or floated publicly.The halcyon days are over.View 0 replies
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Just one of many such recent reports. The mid-90s were insane; back to . . . hard work, patience, slogging it out.View 0 replies
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Of course, officials quickly labeled the shooting "accidental." Just as the drunk driver feels it is just an accident when his car happens to go up a curb and crush the life from a child, teams of men armed with loaded weapons who break into children's homes feel it is just an accident when a shotgun happens to go off and rip a child's body to shreds.Let his death not be in vain.View 0 replies
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When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed.doooooooomedView 0 replies
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Barack Obama’s presidency marks a triumph over the legacy of slavery, so it would be particularly meaningful if he led a new abolitionist movement against 21st-century slavery — like the trafficking of girls into brothels.It's good to see that Kristof continues to bring attention to the issue of trafficking girls into brothels. He is reframing the conversation with
the language of "abolitionism," and bringing the term to the mainstream public.
Marcia G. Yerman (4) January 6, 2009 05:05am GMT
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At Augustana we take seriously Emerson's idea that colleges, at their best, "set the hearts of their youth on flame."A familiar place that Emerson shows up in reference to education: quotable, inpirational. The problem, as ever, he remains a quotation. But how does this college, in its hiring, in its curriculum, in its English department, take Emerson seriously? What would that, serious taking, entail--given Emerson's concern, say, for the problem of books?View 0 replies
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For Hejinian, a metonymy serves as a tool or a rhetorical device to enact consciousness. We read in My Life: "Not fragments but metonymy. Duration. Language makes tracks" (Hejinian 1997: 83). Metonymy, however, works in My Life on the level of sentences and paragraphs rather than words. A reader won't find metonymies in a literal sense, but will find them on a meta-linguistic level. In her essay "Strangeness," Hejinian writes, "metonymy conserves perception of the worlds of the objects, conserves their quiddity, their particular precisions, it is a scientific description" (Hejinian 2000: 151). It is by its quality of contiguity (or Jakobson's association of contiguity), being positioned on a syntagmatic axis, that metonymy produces a constant deferral of meaning and closure, hence generates potency and plentitude, a vast array of interpretative probabilities. For Hejinian, "metonymic thinking moves quite rapidly and less predictably than metaphors permit—but the metonym is not metaphor's opposite. Metonymy moves restlessly through an associative network in which associations are compressed rather than elaborated. Metaphor is intervallic, incremental—it exists within a measure. A metonym is condensation of its context"An article I found in Thought Mesh--looking into relations between writing, scholarship and metonymy. Does Hejinian not offer a further version of Emerson's key line: the use of life is to learn metonymy? And isn't this what this digital machine, thought mesh, is also offering: association of contiguity?View 0 replies
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Beavers are closely related to squirrels (Sciuridae), agreeing in certain structural peculiarities of the lower jaw and skull.Hehe, yes, a bit!View 0 replies
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thought-out....View 0 replies
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semi-automatically....View 0 replies
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SRMeehan (31) January 6, 2009 02:26am GMT
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the language of "abolitionism," and bringing the term to the mainstream public.
Marcia G. Yerman (4) January 6, 2009 05:05am GMT
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