Short Cuts

Ljubljana, Slovenia, www.mladinsko.com 19 Nowa Siła Krytyczna 16 October 2011 Poland The play Damned be the traitor of his homeland! mostly fights against all forms of agressive patriotism, which seamlessly transforms into nationalism. Short compositions during the play demonstrate a series of instruments, used by the so-called defenders of the homeland: from insults, harassment through questions about origine and citizenship (»If a war between Slovenia and Croatia broke out, which

1999). In recent years, however, the pedagogical (if not the scholarly) work of these centres and departments has come under intense scrutiny by university policy-makers, academic departments and funding bodies, who, at a time of public-sector budget cuts, have questioned the efficiency of and necessity for what are seen as peripheral ‘service’ courses in EAP. One institution’s response to these questions has been to replace a mandatory, creditbearing EAP course with a suite of voluntary, non-credit-bearing

gives great pleasure, which is also instructive, to see the path which the human spirit has taken, and (to speak geometrically) this kind of progression, whose intervals are at first extremely long, and afterwards naturally proceed by becoming always shorter. (Fontenelle 1969, p. 77) With so many histories of mathematics already on the shelves, to undertake to write another calls for some justification. Montmort, the first modern mathematician to think of such a project (even if he never succeeded in

made to point out some relevant and positive elements of the people’s culture so as to evangelize them at a deeper level. It is quite obvious the missionaries were not very concerned about the impact of the Gospel on the culture of the people. A. Shorter underlines that when he writes: This missionary was a good old man who had given his life for the work of the Gospel in Africa, yet he did not feel it necessary to make any distinction between the Christianity he preached and his own home culture

McCrum intitulée « Reawakening Ned » publiée dans la revue Observer le 7 Janvier 2001 : « In an interview Carey said : Faulkner’s As I Laying Dying had an immense effect on me, and most of my novels bear the burn marks of this experience, those short chapters with their conflicting points of view, truth expressed by multiple perspectives » Ce même roman est mentionné dans « An interview with Peter Carey » de Robert Dessaix : « In the very beginning I was very affected by William Faulkner and

your day-without leaving your family behind; changing your unproductive habits-quickly; what to do when things go wrong, and planning for it, including late suppliers, unannounced vacations, people quitting or being pulled to another project, budget cuts and schedule accelerations; and V MANAGING PROJECTSWEU organising people for success, including ideal methods for team member motivation. This includes the work effectiveness model. Of course, traditional technical areas of project leadership

following functions : - to define property rights, - to enact a system of laws, - to enforce contracts, - to collect taxes, - to oversee banks, - to promote and preserve competition, - to provide entrepreneurs with information that reduces uncertainty, cuts transaction costs and secures private sector confidence in making investment decisions, - to provide a legal framework such as the disputes between agents can be resolved within. Such institutions provide stability and certainty necessary for facilitating

an organization. Innovation may suffer when leaders and cultures do not encourage creativity and risk taking, and efficiency may suffer in the absence of accountability. Reputation and profitability may suffer in the absence of good governance. In short, the dynamic tension between innovation and accountability must be respected. Maintaining the proper balance is a role for management and one that academic institutions should prepare their students to perform. Design Specifications of Science-Based

à déambuler dans l’image et à en modifier sa vision — tantôt rapprochée, tantôt lointaine, indépendamment du focus filmique et narratif : voir l’alternance, dans Kansas City (1996), entre l’intrigue policière et les séquences musicales ; ou dans Short Cuts (1993), l’oscillation constante entre la froideur du constat et le pathétique propre aux nouvelles de Carver. Le changement constant de focus ne renverse pas seulement la hiérarchie entre les plans, ou n’inverse pas simplement les perspectives ;

your father? It's just two days. For God's sake, Thelma. Don't be a child. Just tell him you're goin' with me, for cryin' out loud. Tell him I'm havin' a nervous breakdown. Thelma has the phone tucked under her chin, as she cuts out coupons from the newspaper and pins them on a bulletin board already covered with them. We see various recipes torn out from women's magazines along the lines of "101 Ways to Cook Pork." THELMA He already thinks you're out of