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...Israeli comedy “The Band’s Visit.” In this much-lauded film, the eight members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra find themselves stranded in Israel when they take the wrong bus on their way to a performance. They are forced to spend the night with a café-owner and her friend. Naturally, there are some hilarious interactions between the lost visitors and their hosts. But when you laugh, you’re not sure if you’re laughing with or at the characters, or just laughing because you feel...
...tattooed, dreadlock-sporting members of radical agitprop collective Taring Padi despise materialism, and spend their days producing banners and posters urging social reform in their native Indonesia. It would therefore be a delicious irony if their work became collectable - clucked over in galleries by affluent, Shiraz-sipping dilettantes. But stranger things have happened in the world of art, and the group - with around 10 artists at its core - now finds itself enjoying a modicum of celebrity...
...Psychological Science, Ian Herbert, a journalist and triathlete, reported on numerous other studies that explain why we fall off the exercise wagon. Research by psychologist Roy Baumeister at Florida State University, for example, suggests that self-control is like a psychological muscle--one that can simply become exhausted. Spend your day trying to maintain your composure with a willful toddler or a demanding boss, and you may not have enough discipline left later to stick to your fitness routine. If that routine involves a diet, things can get even more complicated, as the effort you make to resist having...
...energy to use one’s ability to the fullest as best exemplified by a fondness for and success in athletics’ or something like that.”Needless to say, Blattler has the whole package.In addition to vaulting, the Earth and Planetary Sciences concentrator spends most of her hours either in the lab or playing music recreationally. So how does she balance it all?“It turns that it’s a really great break in your day,” she said about her track and field involvement. “You?...
...have allocated substantially more money to financial aid for lower- and middle-income families,” said Stanford University President John L. Hennessy in a statement. “No high school senior should rule out applying to Stanford because of cost.” Stanford will spend half of its total undergraduate tuition revenue on financial aid for the upcoming school year. To fund the new aid program, Stanford increased its endowment payout last year by 5.5 percent. The university also plans to double its financial aid goal to $200 million in their ongoing fundraising campaign. Stanford raised...