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Monthly Archives: December 2009
WHAT ARE WOMEN FIGHTING ABOUT? | More Intelligent Life
it will remain true that carefully observed, quietly funny, romantic stories about friends, love, work and families will be marketed and reviewed as ‘chick lit’ or ‘literary chick lit’ if they are by women and as ‘coming of age stories’ … Continue reading
The Peter principle revisited: A computational study
In the late sixties the Canadian psychologist Laurence J. Peter advanced an apparently paradoxical principle, named since then after him, which can be summarized as follows: ‘Every new member in a hierarchical organization climbs the hierarchy until he/she reaches his/her … Continue reading
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Armour Archive — Essays: Sheetmetal Cutting Tools by Sasha
By the way, the last five or six times I have seriously set my hair on fire doing anything at all in the workshop, I was always using a plasma cutter on a hot and sweaty day.
New Statesman – No Panthéon for Camus
since the Panthéon is the ‘Académie française for dead people,’ these days Camus is surely both ‘sufficiently academic and sufficiently dead to repose there
A life, quite full
In not so much a biography as an appreciation, Paul Johnson reviews a career so long and varied that those who think of him only as Britain’s great war leader will be surprised. Churchill wrote 10 million words, painted 500 … Continue reading