Google values Mr. Singhal and his team so highly for the most basic of competitive reasons.
Not that he's a neophyte: he already teaches creative writing, he just wants to be paid more highly for the midwifery of stillborn novels.
As well as earning more and working less, the OECD also ranks Switzerland highly for the connectivity of its citizens, with 94% of them stating that they know someone they could rely on in a time of crisis.
Mr. Murdoch has publicly criticized the pending sale of Time Warner to America Online and has said that Internet companies are valued far too highly for the News Corporation to consider a similar merger.
The M.T.A.'s chairman, E. Virgil Conway, said in a statement yesterday, "It speaks highly for the M.T.A. that a member of its management team was selected to participate in this new private venture".
Kukla pays ample tribute to Abigail Adams but has no time for other women of whom Jefferson thought highly: for the feminist Fanny Wright, for example, or Lafayette's aunt, Madame de Tessé.
