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...Mart has long used ad circulars touting hot specials and loss leaders to draw crowds. This approach used to work well, but promotional retailing is inherently inefficient--merchandise courses through the distribution system in massive waves. Pick the wrong products or suffer a supplier hiccup, and you are suddenly up to your ears in toasters and out of detergent. Despite improvements, K Mart is able to keep its goods fully stocked on shelves only 86% of the time. Anything less than 90% is considered unacceptable. Wal-Mart runs close to 100%. Wal-Mart and others have emphasized "everyday low price...
Cooper later compares Wurtzel to La Traviata or a martyred saint: a figure we love to watch suffer. “Ordinary suffering tends to be kind of dull, whereas the Passion of Liz is pathos raised to the pitch of art porn,” he writes in an e-mail. “Agony on ecstasy. If drag queens are not dressing as Elizabeth Wurtzel 30 years down the road, I’ll be deeply surprised...
...book, “Just because you feel deeply and indiscriminately does not mean that your feelings are indications of anything other than your flat-out fucked-up life.” Though many take issue with the chosen outlet of her talents, it takes skill to suffer as beautifully and artistically as Wurtzel. Her lack of shame in laying bare the details is only the beginning...
...made Westerners more skilled on the killing fields. And in a passage Osama bin Laden (or Japanese militarists) might have profited from, Hanson points to the way in which the West's Greek-originated ethical ideas generate a murderous indignation: "We in the West call the few casualties we suffer from terrorism and surprise 'cowardly,' the frightful losses we inflict through open and direct assault 'fair...
...second disparity is that we are so eager to hand money to the families of those who lost their lives in this tragedy - while other families suffer without recourse after more private, but no less painful, losses. The family of a guy who washed dishes at Windows on the World will get close to half a million dollars in aid, while the family of a guy who washed dishes at the local diner before being stabbed to death in a mugging gets absolutely nothing. Why? Each death is absolutely random, and each family will weep in the same...