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...Would an author be able to write a whole book about salt? Mark Kurlansky, the author of "Salt: A World History" (Walker: January), says that not only was there enough to fill a whole book, there was too much. "I didn't want to do 'The Salt Story' in five volumes," he says, only half jokingly. "The problem with this book is that every country in the world has its own salt story." Those stories took Kurlansky around the world "more than once" in his three years of writing his book. Kurlansky says that quest for salt has shaped...
...some members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the living wage is not a matter of charity—it is a matter of justice. To view the living wage as simply one among many good causes for which Harvard could write a check, to view Harvard’s workers as doe-eyed unfortunates and PSLM as their Sally Struthers, is both insulting and inaccurate. These students aren’t asking President Lawrence H. Summers to give higher wages merely as free alms for the good of his soul, but because the workers deserve them. The workers...
...actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject very well might mean something to the grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a 10-page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possessed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...
...generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything at all. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
When public confidence in the company—and Enron’s stock prices—began to slip, Enron was forced to cut its ties with LJM and take a $1 billion write...