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...first change I would propose is the scoring system. If the average person tunes into a golf tournament and sees someone posting a "- 8," the gut reaction might be "wow, that guy sucks so much he's losing points." To make golf more intuitive and to quench the odd American craving for high-scoring sports, I suggest giving players positive points (and lots of them) to award good shots...
Playing in Columbia is always a humbling and odd experience. The only team in the country to play its home games on clay, Columbia also plays in the close confines of "the Bubble," which has only four courts as opposed to the customary...
...might seem odd that a nostalgia sitcom should embrace new media. But after viewing last Monday's debut of Behind the Scenes at That '70s Show--billed by producer Carsey-Werner as "the first-ever weekly Internet streaming series for a network show" (whew!)--it made sense. The jumpy video, the garbled audio (over a 56.6K modem), the thrown-together interviews with the Fox hit's stars--the infant days of TV must have been like this. It was enough to make one nostalgic for today...
...majority of Harvard students come from homes with microwaves, toasters and other such kitchen appliances. From a young age, most of us have reheated our own meals, toasted our own bread and otherwise provided for ourselves. Even in the odd chance that a student had never used a microwave, I have complete faith that he or she would quickly figure out a way to safely operate it. It's nowhere near as difficult as derivatives or Kant's theory of the self. Yet the Harvard administration seems to not believe that we can heat up a bowl of soup without...
...enlightened era, says TIME legal reporter Alain Sanders. "The ACLU is approaching the problem from a historical perspective, and the history of segregation, racial or gender-based, is one in which women and minorities have consistently gotten the short end of the stick," says Sanders. So just as an odd coalition of religious conservatives and feminists will continue to trumpet the benefits of same-sex classrooms, the ACLU will continue to champion civil rights laws - even at the expense of another, perhaps equally valid viewpoint...