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...messing with my head, of course, but it shook me. I decided to call blogger Gary Merson, whose HDGuru.com is the bible of the HDTV industry, and ask him the Passover question: How is the laser HD different from all other HDTVs...
...Another possible repercussion: a reexamination of the freewheeling, free-market practices - what the French like to call "Anglo-Saxon capitalism" - that led to this crisis. French President Nicolas Sarkozy kicked off that debate as Wall Street was reeling from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and Congress was first debating the bailout package. In a speech in Toulon on Sept. 25, he said the crisis marked "the end of a world that was built on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War - a big dream of liberty and prosperity." As for capitalism, he called...
...less." Through entertaining and wide-ranging discussions of terrorism, the threat of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, migration, drug-trafficking, diseases, energy and climate change, Patten sees enough opportunities for cooperation to remain an optimist. The former European Commissioner for External Relations is an unashamed liberal internationalist, happy to call antiglobalization activists hypocrites. But he also recognizes the severe damage American adventurism has done to Washington's image over the past few years and warns against exaggerating the impact of globalization on billions of poor people. The world, he says, is not "entirely flat...
While impossible Undergraduate Council campaign promises continue to plague the Yard, things are different in the upperclass Houses. Worldly upperclassmen know better than to be enchanted by the alleged possibility of longer dining hall hours and termination of the universal wake-up call in the form of the Mem Church bells. Since straightforward platforms may not be enough to sway House-dwellers to vote at all, what’s a candidate...
...Fast-forward a decade or so to my first real internship. Bringing first job jitters into this idiotic equation that is my approach to life, it was clear that any attempt at success in this new realm they call “the office” would be futile. For someone who sweats the simple stuff, a summer internship in midtown Manhattan is a veritable hell on earth. Life hands me lemons, and I can’t even figure out how to slice them...