The Archives
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07.21.09showing what you knowLast night I participated in the Board of Review process for a new Boy Scout troop founded by the graduates of the Cub Scout pack my sons belong to. It was the first time that I've been on the delivery end of the Board of Review process--I went through plenty of them myself as a Scout a quarter century ago--and it was an interesting experience. The purpose of the Board of Review, held when a Scout has completed the requirements for his next rank badge, isn't so much to quiz the Scout--that's for the Scoutmaster to do, and ...
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04.21.09a solace of ripe plums. . . They taste good to her You can see it by the way she gives herself to the one half sucked out in her hand Comforted a solace of ripe plums seeming to fill the air They taste good to her William Carlos Williams Reading the Confessions of a Bailout CEO Wife at Portfolio.com without giving in to boiling rage is a good exercise in the sort of ...
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03.31.09The Unemployment Diary ProjectMr. Pepall, every day is now casual Friday for you. In fact, you don’t even have to bother getting out of bed. If time is money, mazel tov—you are now a rich man. Memo from the C.E.O. by Patricia Marx I start this series with a bit of trepidation; we live, after all, in an age where anything said on the Internet can be found with a little bit of effort, and stories abound of prospective employees who've torpedoed their careers with unfortunate bits of digital flotsam. I'm far too old to have any embarrassing pictures of myself on Facebook, but ...
