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...revealed by life's more typical crises: losing a job, having an annoying neighbor or flirting with someone you shouldn't. The best of the four tales in this collection, "Hawaiian Getaway," features Hillary Chan, a twenty-something child of Asian immigrants who loses her job and starts a downward spiral of guilt and self-loathing. Driven to distraction by a demanding, critical mother and a patronizing, "successful" younger sister, she begins making increasingly nasty prank calls to the payphone outside her window. Strangely, one of these results in a date with a decent guy. Will she see him again...
...word and sits down. Moments later, one of the men onstage stands up, removes his jacket and walks forward. His legs positioned in a kendo stance, he whisks out a golden fan emblazoned with the red circle of the Japanese flag. He briskly waves the fan in deliberate downward strokes as a militaristic march plays in the background. The audience claps along, one solid clap every three seconds, while they sing in unison...
Instead, last fall Andersen's audit team worked frantically (to no avail) to find legal accounting tricks so that Enron wouldn't have to restate its earnings downward by $591 million and post a $1 billion loss. Prosecutors allege that around the same time, Andersen shredded trunkloads of documents it knew might help the Securities and Exchange Commission investigate Enron's demise...
...first steps was to convert the ramp from steel to concrete. If I had a calf's body and hooves, I would be very scared to step on a slippery metal ramp. The final design had a concrete ramp at a 25 [degree] downward angle. Deep grooves in the concrete provided secure footing. The ramp appeared to enter the water gradually, but in reality it abruptly dropped away below the water's surface. The animals could not see the drop-off because the dip chemicals colored the water. When they stepped out over the water, they quietly fell in because...
...write about the topic. Why validate the argument through response? Why try to use logic with a man who found it sound and reasonable to claim that manliness is the world’s most admirable virtue and that the introduction of minority students leads to a downward GPA spiral...