Word: trappings
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Well, you can find out this Saturday, when the Harvard Shooting Club hosts its latest shotgun skeet and trap shooting outing. Everyone—including you, even if you’ve never touched a gun before—is encouraged to attend. Need a reason? Here are a few offered by the club...
...wait a second. If you’re like us, you may be a little alarmed (especially by this last reason). And you may be wondering just what “skeet and trap shooting” actually involves. Well, read on, because we’ve jumped the gun (ha!) and uncovered the answers for you after the jump...
...seems overly simplistic, but much corporate strategy revolves around trying to grow a brand beyond its core market. (Think low-end Mercedes.) But it's not doable, says the author, who refers to this aspiration as the "fidelity mirage." It's a trap that companies frequently fall into. "Contrary to what many businesses want to believe, achieving both high fidelity and high convenience seems to be impossible," he writes. "It looks tempting. Some companies believe they can get there, and life will be beautiful. But as it turns out, any company or product that attempts to capture both is likely...
...Nijat (Urdu for "Path to Deliverance"), was launched early Saturday morning after weeks of heavy aerial bombardments that were designed to weaken militant fortifications. By Sunday, some 28,000 soldiers had moved into a remote corner of the mountainous region, in a three-pronged attack intended to trap the estimated 7,000 to 10,000 militants in South Waziristan, including some 1,000 Uzbek and foreign fighters who may be affiliated with al-Qaeda...
...accurate and beautiful conception of poetics—John Keats’s “Negative Capability”: “when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.” I believe that herein rests the trap of “quantum literature”: the purposeful conflation of Keats’s and Heisenberg’s uncertainties...