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...endearingly ambivalent national traits. Unsurprisingly, his all-time champion of this view is P.T. Barnum, who at one point tells General Tom Thumb that "our mission is to startle and amuse, to make our audience pay too much for too little and forget to hang us from the nearest lamppost...
...order to avoid disturbing your roommate, you head off to the nearest computer lab and login to a computer...
...Wahlberg's manager, the intrusive, Jerry McGuire-ish Steve Levinson. "I knew I needed to be here!" Later, Wahlberg is asked if he would have stripped. "Sure," he says. "Ask me to jump out the window, and I'd do that too." And he fakes a dive through the nearest window...
...deal goes through--and it will certainly get a hard look from antitrust officials--AOL will have 12 million members, almost six times as many as its nearest competitor, the Microsoft Network. But while the news was big, AOL had no idea the coup would so clearly signal that the company had finally arrived. As congratulatory calls poured in, AOL employees shared a moment of collective corporate shock: "Well, I guess Steve was right...
...summer, but it's a bit easier to appreciate their interest and excitement about Harvard in the summer. After all, the grass is green, the sun is shining, the buildings look their best. And, of course, there is no homework to make you want to accost the nearest camera-clicker and say, "Hey, you want to do my problem sets...