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...strategy for being a movie star is pretty simple, if counterintuitive: he makes fun of himself. It's the by-product of every successful person's strategy, which is to figure out what the other person is thinking. "Before they could kill me on Batman & Robin, I said, 'It's a bad film, and I'm the worst thing in it.' You try to defend an indefensible position, you'll look like a schmuck. The guys I dig don't do that. Look at Winston Churchill. He said, 'These are our shortcomings. Now let's get past it,'" Clooney says...
...dean and a couple of his deputies—including S. James Adelstein, who was serving as executive dean for academic programs—developed a plan to kill two birds with one stone: provide a framework for Medical School programs abroad while using the programs to improve the School’s fiscal situation...
...nation’s meat inspection system is corrupt and incompetent. Inspectors focus on carcasses, not animals—Shapiro notes that inspectors are typically too far down the kill line to either see the live animal, or witness its death. Moreover, collusion with slaughterhouse workers is common—a 2006 New York Times investigation found inspectors accepting gifts from plant managers and playing computer games on the job. The veterinarian at Hallmark/Westland arrived every day at a pre-announced time—and workers only abused the animals outside of these hours...
...candidates for the Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the best player in women’s college hockey. Cahow is also in the running, and on Saturday continued to lead a strong Crimson defensive unit that despite allowing 24 shots on goal was 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and generally kept control of the game’s momentum in Harvard’s hands.“We did a really good job of managing the game and managing the clock,” Cahow said. “We were able to weather the storm...
...plays and innumerable close calls for Harvard goaltender Kyle Richter.“We spent so much time in the box in the second period, and two things happened: one, it keeps some of our best players off the ice, and two, some of our best players get tired killing the penalties,” Donato said, adding, “We need to be much more disciplined if we think we’re going to beat teams down the stretch here. Tonight we were lucky.”Skill, however, played just as important a role as luck...