And here is Vodafone, wielding its unsolicited Cegetel offer like Occam's razor, offering to slice Vivendi into something smaller but more logical.
The more valuable skill sets, he argues, will be those that computers can't offer, like empathy and sociability — skills that you might be more likely to learn in an English course than one in linear algebra.
Have you been given an offer like this? Would you accept it?
But should the company be able to ignore a rival offer like that?
"For Anthony, to be honest, it was difficult to refuse an offer like this.
"It's the quickest way to get rid of an offer like that".
Would the I.R.A. and Protestant paramilitary groups accept an offer like this?
There was no way I could turn down an offer like that.
"We had an offer like this," he said, referring to the ultimate settlement, "but they pulled it off the table".
Szpilman's recollections, published shortly after the war, offer, like other such books, a deeply paradoxical impression of the Holocaust.
