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...like my anonymity. Should I ask my parents to stop? Thanks, Confused Dear Confused, We’ve all walked in your shoes. Many times I’ve told my parental units’ friends that I attend Harvard. They stare in shock and awe when I drop that bomb like I’m over Baghdad. They genuflect. They whisper “genius,” or “beatific,” or “God-like,” or “God.” They replenish my table with roasted...
...places for only 50 more. But teaching pregnant women about the need for good nutrition while carrying, and giving those with low viral counts antiretroviral drugs to make them healthier have produced encouraging results: only 8 of the 118 children born so far have tested HIV-positive, a sharp drop from the standard...
...veracity. "When we show it in the U.S. and France," he says, with barely disguised glee, "the audiences believe every single thing they've seen is true. Which says a lot about (their) gullibility, which is good for the storyteller." That arrogance extended to Mclean's decision to drop the e from Wolfe Creek, digitally removing the letter from maps and signs in the film: "I didn't like it, and that...
...anything blue they own, and root for the Bulldogs to knock off the Bears. If Brown gets by Yale unscathed, the race is pretty much done. The Bears finish up against Dartmouth and Columbia and with the Ivy title on the line, they won’t drop one of those games. But if the Bulldogs come through with a win, things could get very interesting. Harvard will have to win out, which is hardly an easy task. Princeton would have to drop one more game, most likely to Penn or Yale. And if all of that happens, the season...
...with deflation (generally falling prices) a few years ago, "he among all the Fed governors was most vocal about the need to generate inflation," says Alan Wild, a global fixed-income manager for Barings Bank. In November 2002, Bernanke publicly spoke of options, citing Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money into the pockets of consumers via tax rebates to stimulate spending, which was radical stuff from a central banker. Some are now worried that Bernanke would overcorrect his reputation, raising rates too far to prove his credibility on the inflation-fighting front...