A first-rate piece of social reportage.
EARLIER this year Sarah Stillman wrote a first-rate piece in the New Yorker on the abuses of civil asset forfeiture a practice wherein police seize and keep the property of people who have not been convicted of a crime.
His most recent book, "The New American Militarism", is a first-rate piece of history which sets out to explain how a powerful and well-respected army came to seem the solution to almost all America's problems after the Vietnam war.
The article is a first-rate piece of narrative investigation (good enough to make any journalist cringe for the future of his profession: what is this guy doing unemployed?), but the meatiest nuggets from a policy perspective concern hate-crime sentencing.
From a two-star review of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," by Burton G. Malkiel: This book is worth reading for those dullards who believe beating the market is easy (it will save them money at least), but I'd hate to think that some talented youngster had been put off a career in the markets by this 2nd-rate piece of ivory tower hucksterism masquerading as rigorous academic research.
There are cheap processors out there already, but this is a full-featured, quad-core 45nm part, not some cut-rate piece of garbage.
But I had my entree instead, a first-rate piece of fish to be sure but it was lost on me, unfortunately.
The paper is "a first-rate piece of work," says molecular biologist Steven McKnight of the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas, that shows that the current focus on VEGF is too narrow.
This, of course, was the pathetic braggadocio of a man who hadn't done a first-rate piece of work (as he saw it) since his novel Bullet Park six years before, and had begun to suspect his career and perhaps his life was over.
Gu Wenda and Xu Bing, two artists familiar in New York, come through with first-rate pieces.
