Word: explainer
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...problem with a restoration this big is that it's so hard to keep it a secret. And old habits die hard. How else to explain the woman working the switchboard at the Bush-Cheney transition headquarters the other day who picked up the phone and said, "Bush-Quayle." She quickly corrected herself with an embarrassed laugh, but who could really blame...
...explain the literally unprecedented Harry Potter phenomenon, starting with Rowling, now 35, whose life has been changed utterly by the product of her imagination. Seven years ago, she was the single mother of a small daughter, living in a two-room flat in Edinburgh, listening to mice skittering behind the walls. Now she is internationally famous and earning, according to various estimates, somewhere in the range of $30 million to $40 million a year. Once, during a bad patch, she dreaded the hostile looks she would attract while lining up at the local post office to claim her weekly income...
...book spanning 15 years of Ellison's work as an anthropologist is due out this spring. Entitled "On Fertile Ground," the book attempts to explain the evolution of the human reproductive system...
...news, funksters FinkFankFunk take over the Adams House Lower Common Room today at 10pm. Otherwise, there's not much in the way of music news. Mike Rutherford says Genesis are now probably-slash-certainly "over." Ooh, big deal. Speaking of Genesis, or at least ex-Genesis members, can someone explain why rappers love Phil Collins? See Tupac's "Staring Thru My Rearview" and Eminem's "Stan...
Therefore, the Zero Factor legend has been taken to explain why all other presidents elected in zero years (1840, 1860, etc.) have passed away in office, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, who suffered an assassination attempt...