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...grunts echo throughout the Vancouver curling venue. "Push," he yells in German. "Hard! Fast!" In curling, the skip's job is to tell his teammates where to throw their stones to the house, that dartboard-looking scoring area on the ice (an explanation of how curling works requires a textbook - just know that in the end, if your stone is closest to the bull's-eye, that's a good thing). And of course, he also badgers the sweepers...
...Harvard mainstays to make the list, other bloggers think Harvard’s representation shouldn’t end there. Angry Bear, an economics blog, backs the idea that those who can’t, teach, lamenting that Professor N. Gregory Mankiw (“author of the textbook that corrupts more Econ 101 people than any other”) and Harvard Business School Professor Michael C. Jensen were excluded from the list...
...taste in decadent demigods was impeccable, from Charles Baudelaire to William Burroughs. But she was drifting into a prosaic life. The previous year she had gotten pregnant, dropped out of a teachers' college, placed the baby with an adoptive family and started punching a clock in a textbook factory. In desperation she lunged for New York City with her drawing pencils and a copy of Rimbaud. Straight off the bus she headed to look up friends in Brooklyn and stumbled upon Mapplethorpe, sound asleep. "He was pale and slim with masses of dark curls, lying bare chested with strands...
...traditions were "stripped" by the Spanish mission system that ruled California 200 years ago, Talaugon believes that the arborglyph and its implications empower the ongoing cultural renaissance among those of Chumash descent. In recent years, Chumash revivalists have built and paddled plank canoes into the sea, developed a linguistic textbook and learned to perform the music and dancing of yesteryear...
Government Professor Theda R. Skocpol called this idea “almost a textbook example of some of the things Obama is trying to do. It would reduce subsidies to the privileged, in this case banks, and...use the money to create broader benefits for the middle class and the poor...