Sex, blackmail, theft, treachery, murder and... scholarship? Online satirical novel, launched today, skewers political correctness, university life, student activism, and the cult of celebrity
(ContentDesk) April 5, 2004--In the lively tradition of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities and David Lodge's Small World and Changing Places, Marianne Shapiro's Higher Learning sends-up sex, blackmail, theft, treachery, political correctness, murder mysteries and scholarship. The novel has been published online as an ebook, and is available free at http://www.higherlearninganovel.com. Carol Pentleton (www.thenewplace.com) designed the ebook.Set at Ivy League "Redfern University," the story turns on the murder of a student, Selena Fenn, whose grandfather is a prominent member of the Redfern Board of Trustees. Chief suspects are assorted lunatic Redfern faculty members; Keith Chambers, the special assistant to Redfern's president, Grigol ("Chuck") Chavadze; and Selena's lesbian roommate, Hilary Slocombe.As two harried police detectives struggle to cut through University red tape and duplicity to solve the murder, the chaos is amplified by purloined letters, incriminating papers dating back to World War II, a flourishing on-campus prostitution ring, faculty intrigue, the establishment of a politically correct curriculum and a list of Forbidden Words. At stake are millions of dollars, control of a new campus Center, and the reputations of high-powered campus movers-and-shakers.The author, Marianne Shapiro (n?e Goldner) was born on April 14, 1940, in Budapest (Hungary), and immigrated to the United States at the age of 3.
She attended New York public schools in Manhattan, including the High School of Music and Art, and graduated from Barnard College. She was a Fulbright student at the Universities of Rome and Florence and received graduate degrees from Harvard and Columbia University.Besides her extensive published scholarship in medieval, Renaissance, and comparative literature, Marianne Shapiro was an accomplished classical pianist and linguist (French, Italian, Latin, Old Proven?al, German, Russian) and had a detailed knowledge of art history, particularly the European Middle Ages and Renaissance.Despite this unusual versatility--and perhaps because of it--she was unable to find a permanent position in the academic world and was forced to migrate from one temporary job to another over the entire 35-year span of her professional life.After months of the most cruel and horrible suffering, Marianne Shapiro died of sarcoma in Manchester Center, Vermont, on June 3, 2003. Her husband, Michael, her daughter, Abigail, and her granddaughter, Emma Lydia, survive her..
John Slattery Joins MarketStance
Middletown, CT (ContentDesk)November 14, 2003 -? John Slattery has joined MarketStance as vice president of business development, the insurance statistics and analytical services company announced.In this newly created position, Mr. Slattery is responsible for growing revenues and advancing a customer centric culture at MarketStance, as well as cultivating strategic relationships for new product opportunities. MarketStance develops database products containing insurance statistics and estimates on commercial property/casualty exposures, by-line premiums, and loss ratios; information on business demographics and market growth; and employee population profiles for group benefit insurers. Mr. Slattery will be based in Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaA 35-year veteran of the information services field, Mr.
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Parental Hostility: What Will This Bring To Your Children's Life?
One of the most important factors influencing kids' adjustments to their parents' separation or divorce is the level of parental hostility. How bad or how well children go through the divorce depends on how the situation is handled.To give you concrete idea on what parental hostility will bring to your child, a list of several studies conducted by different researchers relative to hostility between parent and it's impact to child's development are herein presented.One study conducted by Raschke and Raschke (1979) about parental hostility concluded that inter-parental conflict in divorced families had the most harmful effect on the children's self-concept; and conflict in general had a negative effect on child development.Emery (1982) in his research concluded that open hostility over time, in both divorced and married families, causes more harm to children than does indirect hostility.Shaw and Emery (1987) in their studies found that the higher the rate of externalized hostility between...
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How To Save Money on a Website
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