Monthly Archives: March 2008

Awkward sentence construction

A story on Hulu in FORTUNE magazine (“A New Way to Watch TV“, March 17) showed how an awkward sentence construction makes difficult reading. Quote:The drama surrounding Hulu’s launch heated up last August when NBC abruptly pulled its content off the Apple iTunes store – where NBC shows like The Office and 30 Rock had… Read More »

Make sure your partner is richer than you

Hong Kong’s Court of Appeal has ruled that a couple’s assets should be equally divided upon divorce, no matter what each spouse brought to the union. According to its latest judgment, marriage is a “partnership of equals” and “there is no room for discrimination between husband and wife”. Paul McCartney will most likely disagree. Previously,… Read More »