wonky… they are books that focus on the six words that guide me — helping government do its job better. The book we will be discussing is Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times by Nancy Koehn, a professor at the Harvard Business School. The book profiles...
with its tangled plot, a perceptive and satirical social and political eye, wonderful memorable characters who have become the stuff of English language itself (Sairy Gamp; Pecksniff) and a happy ending extolling the virtues of goodness and families. It was laugh-out-loud funny in places, and ...
It hasn’t happened since Richard Nixon was president — the government shrank. TheNew York Times’ Floyd Norris reports that for the first time in 40 years, the government sector of the American economy has shrunk during the first three years of a presidential administration. Spending by the ...
While computers provide convenience, they do have a drawback. Programs crash. I had such an experience today at work. I had my proof file built for a letter I was preparing for a client. When I tried to save it, the program flashed an error message and my file disappeared into cyberspa...
A six-year-old longing to keep a unicorn in her backyard figured she’d get the hard part out of the way first.Last November, Madeline wrote a letter to the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control with a straightforward request. “Dear LA County, I would like your appro...
It is a collection of her “Letter from London” columns that were published in the New Yorker during the War. The book is divided into seven sections, for each year of the war, each commencing with a brief one-page time line of major events during that year. She fictionalized much of...
forsixhours we shot through the barren (荒芜的) landscape of the karoo desert in south africA. just rocks and sand and baking sun. knowing our journey was ending, daniel and 1 just wanted to remember all we had seen and donE. he used a camerA. i used words. i had already finished ...
We followed the instructions, more or less to the letter, and had pretty good results. I have to say, I can’t reinforce Greg’s instructions enough — lowering the tophat onto the bass horn is a tricky thing. The problem? Those spikes are wicked-sharp and the finish on the loudspeaker...
References in classic literature ? Thou that hast seen six kingdoms pass away, Accept my song and these three cups I drain! View in context Yep, that one still jars for many of us, but the ending of Bran Stark being elected the King of the Six Kingdoms of Westeros is a defining moment...
Read the answers in this letter, which he wrote to all kids everywhere shortly before his death. II Discourse analyses 1. The main idea of the text. By recording the last few days he spent with his pig, E. B. White empathized with his ailing pig. His role was changed, from the ...