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...ideas, "Artistic and Intellectual Ferment" and "Joining the World" are hardly the product of much brainstorming and betray the Naisbitts' tone-deafness. Do we really believe that what the Naisbitts call "Chinese country music" will soon become a "moneymaking machine" simply because one peasant group's original composition, Song of Sanitation Workers got some favorable notice in the provincial press? (See pictures of China...
...keep brain-damaged infants on life support. Through personal stories, her own experiments and other research, she dissects perceptions of choice (do we actually have it, and how desirable is it?) and what those perceptions mean. While Iyengar's often strained attempts to affect a colloquial tone are jarring, her point is well taken. As she suggests, in a world with ever increasing options, understanding choice may be more important than the choices themselves...
Before the third, Harvard had jumped out to an early lead when junior catcher Tyler Albright scored off a single from junior right fielder Joey Smith in the top of the second. But the 49ers soon changed the tone of the game, after Charlotte scored nine runs in the bottom of the third inning. First baseman Ryan Rivers was the first to strike, sending center fielder Cory Tilton home to put his team on the scoreboard. Rivers soon crossed the plate off a wild pitch from sophomore Brent Suter. Suter allowed seven runs before he was replaced by Matt Doyle...
After doubles play concluded, sophomore Sam Gridley set the tone for the singles round with a 6-3, 6-0 win in her first action of the road trip...
...meaningful. I'd be happy to accept Greenberg as a portrait of the terrible insecurities and needs that bring the lovely person and the stinker together. But I doubt that Baumbach intended to make a dramatized version of Smart Women, Foolish Choices. It seems out of character, and the tone is not that of a cautionary tale. I worry that he sees Greenberg as a modern, ennui-filled love story and believes, like Florence, that Greenberg can be saved by the love of a good woman. Not a chance...