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...help you with obscure questions that range from geography (What’s the river that runs through Dublin?) to the profoundly disturbing (How many books in the Harvard University library system are known to be bound in human skin?). If you can’t, for some reason, answer these questions, start hitting the books: Prizes include a $30 gift certificate and enough beer to make your herpes-ridden neighbors look pretty damn good. So, if you get that itch to compete, Uno’s trivia nights are Sundays at 8 p.m. and John Harvard?...
...moment of tension arose during the question-and-answer session when a man who introduced himself as a reporter from the Boston Globe asked when gays would be accepted in the military...
...speed of the drawdown would be determined by ongoing assessments of the security situation. Certainly, he knows that he won't be there to oversee the final departure of British forces from Iraq. The former Europe Minister Denis MacShane, leaving the chamber at the end of the question-and-answer session, welcomed "the reduction of British troops in Iraq" and "a mission partly accomplished in Basra," but suggested that aspects of the insurgency in the country could never be appeased. Moreover he foresees a need for fresh commitments by Britain and other powers as terrorism and tyranny afflict populations...
...feeling, or thinking. No doubt the body, with its physical brain, responds physically to noxious stimuli. But the non-physical mind is yet the only realm in which the bad experience of suffering exists. Mind and brain are mysteriously related. Lobotomized or drug-loaded patients can still answer questions. Stick one with a big needle and ask: does it hurt? Yes, it does, doctor. You can get him to report a VAS number. They might even withdraw from the needle. But there is no grimace, no groan. They certainly feel pain - but they don't care. And they...
...hate to say it, but there are some questions an interviewer may ask you where you will have to straight up lie. For instance, I was once asked what I thought was my greatest accomplishment. If I were to answer truthfully, I would have said that it was the time that I beat the game “Gears of War” with the difficulty set to “Insane” while playing with a controller whose buttons kept sticking, preventing me from effectively zooming in with my sniper rifle and throwing accurate grenades. Unfortunately, my video...