Pick up any newspaper – on paper or online – and you’ll find some of the best writers in the sports section and the business section. (Mind you, these are also the sections in which you will find some of … Continue reading
About once a week, the news media runs a story about how some fundamental aspect of life as we know it is about to change. Typically, the headlines lead us to believe that within a very short time – perhaps … Continue reading
If – a few days ago – you opened your newspaper at the business section, you may have read that Asian markets had fallen on the back of investors’ concerns over uncertainty in Europe. And if you opened the same … Continue reading
It’s not what the writer thinks he or she has put in that matters. It’s what the reader takes out. Lately, I have read or heard about several disputes in which one party says ‘We didn’t know’ and the other … Continue reading
By some stroke of fortune, a group of us – some not known for their time keeping – managed to arrive at the restaurant at pretty much the same time. ‘Ah, yes. Table for ten,’ the maître d’ said and, … Continue reading