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Debts of gratitude.(Book Review)
Brief Lives, by Peter Ryan; Duffy & Snellgrove, 2004, $22.
I FIRST HEARD of Peter Ryan in the late 1980s, when he began a fortnightly column in the Melbourne Age. Newspaper columns come and go, often without leaving a trace in the reader's mind even on the day, but for several reasons Ryan's was different.
First, he was not wedded to the moment. Although he wrote about current events, he also wrote about the past. Unusually for a columnist, his memory extended beyond the 1960s, and he wrote about the middle decades of the twentieth century, and the people who lived then, with affection. Even more unusually, his idea of history extended centuries beyond ...
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- FMAS Corporation Hires Dr. Peter Ryan to Head Survey Center.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire July 12, 1999 700+ words
...July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- DynCorp -- a leading information technology and services firm -- today announced that Dr. Peter Ryan has joined its subsidiary FMAS Corporation as director of its Survey Operations Center. In this role Dr. Ryan will provide...
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- Magazine article from: Australian Banking & Finance Khoury, Andre September 30, 2008 700+ words
...When talk at our Institutional Financial Services panel discussion and luncheon turned to the current market volatility MC Peter Ryan asked NabCapital chief executive John Hooper for his view with the following line: "At NAB you've been in the firing line...
Source: HighBeam Research, Debts of gratitude.(Book Review)