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When my friend Anne and I had to cram for a calculus exam in high school, she brought a plate of warm cookies to our study session. Perhaps it was the melted chunks of chocolate, or perhaps it was my heightened appreciation for anything and everything that did not pertain to calculus, but a homemade cookie had never tasted so good. “I’ve started baking, and I love it,” she announced when I complimented the cookies. “I can’t wait to be a stay-at-home mom?...
...whimsically envisioned Anne seated at a sparkling kitchen table and helping her daughter with her calculus homework, however, I also realized this: regardless of whether her decision was progressive or regressive from a sociological or historical standpoint, it could have no connotation either way on an individual level. The time and effort she was investing in her education and personal credentials could not be judged by whether she ultimately became a doctor or a stay-at-home mom, by how she personally chose to define happiness and success...
...multi-phase bombing in New York City. At this juncture the film threatens to become a conventional revenge narrative: with Hasan avenging himself of his torture by murdering citizens of his captors’ nation. However, “War” resists convention and instead indicts the calculus of the “an eye for an eye” ethos. This stands in stark contrast to American action films like “Collateral Damage,” in which the logic of retribution is never called into question, and the act of revenge is celebrated as cathartic...
Perhaps people have some stereotypes about athletes because of their limited contact with them. I, however, have seen a baseball player cut to the heart of romantic poetry, a lacrosse player with a rock-solid grasp of electoral reform, a rower receive top grades in statistics and calculus, another rower who, in addition to working an outside job, was a teaching fellow in engineering, and yes, I’ve seen a football player with the ability to converse about American literature with the profundity of a tenured professor. These are all varsity athletes, all clearly demonstrating more than enough...
...fact, the city's plan clearly allows the mayor to do just that. But Nagin also hesitated because the city might be held liable for unnecessarily closing hotels and other businesses, according to the article. That was a practical, if coldhearted, calculus in a city like New Orleans. "Any place that has a lot of tourists, it's very expensive to evacuate," says Kate Hale, who was director of emergency management for Dade County, Fla., when Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992. "It costs $1 million a coastal mile to evacuate. You're shutting down businesses. It's not something...