Author: Frederick Stankus

The Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial Institutions, on Wednesday, pledged to assess the Companies and Allied Matters Act to empower shareholders to oversee the operations of their business investments. The committee announced this during its discussion with the board members of the Bank Directors Association of […]

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A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against indifference, an emblem of the water cycle that makes this planet a living world capable of trees and tenderness, a great cosmic gasp at the improbability that such a world exists, that across the cold expanse of spacetime strewn with billions upon billions of other star systems, there is nothing like it as far as we yet know. Clouds are almost as old as this world, born when primordial volcanos first exhaled the chemistry of the molten planet into the sky,… read article

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