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...elevators or take the straightest route across the grass instead of following the tortuous sidewalk. At this moment, you may be saving time by reading (or skimming) this review while eating with one hand, finishing an assignment with the other and simultaneously listening to music or television in the background. As James Gleick, author of the National Book Award nominated Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, attempts to show in Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything, you are not alone. Through his discussion of time as related to changes in all aspects of life--from daily activity...
...Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and of "I Love the Nightlife" in Last Days of Disco; Abba songs punctuating Muriel's Wedding; that inimitable discussion of "Like a Virgin" in Reservoir Dogs; "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the background as Wiley Wiggins gets paddled in Dazed and Confused; Faye Wong dancing to "California Dreaming" (Chungking Express); Tom Everett Scott hitting the drums too fast but just right in That Thing You Do!; and "Play it Sam. Play 'As Time Goes...
Meanwhile, the Housing Office can still flex its muscles and promote diversity by being discreet in its assignments. It already asks for the concentrations of students. It should also ask for the ethnic background and athletic or program involvement of each applicant...
...People were just focusing on that," Jorgenson said. "I had the impression that people needed to familiarize themselves with his academic background again...
...past. Once, a report of this type would prompt a serious review of what was going on. There's no indication that we can expect that any time soon. And the depressing thing is the extent of the rot. These guys set up fictitious companies that had no background. They were nobodies from nowhere, but because they were carrying bundles of money they could walk into the homes of leading politicians' houses and meet the top generals. And it's not as if they were offering sums that were all that large. You just have to have a bundle...