February 2012
14 posts
“The most famous case of tax divorce fraud is Boyter v. Commissioner.
There, a...”
– “Marriage Fraud” Kerry Abrahms University of Virginia School of Law
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
– Edith Wharton
“There are two ways of talking,” he said. “One is the easy way, where you talk...”
– V.S. Naipul, “A New, Noiser Way of Writing”
“Dr. Max Sanders, an exercise physiologist at the University of California at San...”
– Bob Glover “The Runner’s Handbook”
“Sociologists now have data showing that women who can maintain friendships...”
– Jeffrey Zaslow “The Girls from Ames”
“Life shocks us into silence.”
– Teju Cole “A Particular Eye, A Particular Sensibility” The Hindu
“Surgeons, as a group, adhere to a curious egalitarianism. They believe in...”
– Atul Gawande “Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Improper Science”
“By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found...”
– Song of Solomon 3: 1-4
“Liberals sometimes feel that it is narrow-minded to favor traditional marriage....”
– Nicholas D. Kristof “The White Underclass”
“There are a hundred and one reasons why a woman will pause when an unknown man...”
– K.R.V. “A Hundred and One Reasons”
“Google’s 70/20/10 rule: Each employee should spend 70 percent of her time...”
– “Harvesting Intangible Assets: Uncover Hidden Revenue in Your Company’s Intellectual Property” by Andrew J. Sherman
“WHY art thou silent? Is thy love a plant
Of such weak fibre that the...”
– William Wordsworth “To a Distant Friend”
“The only language of loss left in the world is Arabic.
These words were said to...”
– Agha Shahid Ali “Ghazal”