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...defy stereotypes. The real Real America has become both more homogeneous (more chain stores, less local flavor) and more heterogeneous (the "exotic" is less exotic--McDonald's sells lattes and chipotle wraps). This is America today: the real people borrow from the fake people, Dunkin' Donuts from Starbucks, and vice versa. But the media's cultural referents for ordinary America have hardly changed since George H.W. Bush cracked open a bag of pork rinds...
...labor-intensive on the back end. Around 10% of records get tossed each month because the firm's data crunchers can't confirm the addresses. "I chuckle every time I see a new company pop up to provide the definitive answer to how many foreclosures there are," says senior vice president Rick Sharga. "There's as much art to this as science...
...world faces the existential threat of climate change, the former Vice President has embarked on an admirable quest to reform carbon-heavy habits. Yet despite his talk of making inconvenient choices, Mr. Gore continues to indulge in one of the most environmentally irrational habits of all: eating meat...
...Yard, having slept through it after dozing off while reading “On the Road” for a seminar (this is more of a testament to sleep deprivation than an indictment of Jack Kerouac).But had I been there, I would have asked the former Vice President to offer a solution to another pressing issue: the woeful state of the current Ivy League football standings. After all, Gore was roommates with Tommy Lee Jones ’69 at Harvard, and Jones was an All-Ivy offensive tackle for the Crimson’s 1968 undefeated team that...
...Former Vice President Al Gore ’69 spoke to a massive crowd in Harvard Yard yesterday about both the dire risks facing the planet and the responsibility of universities, particularly Harvard, to assume moral leadership on the issue...