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...interrogator scowled at me. ''Do you call this a serious effort at self-examination? You gave a statistical record of your life like someone writing down an account of daily expenditures. Why? Because you have something to hide!'' That night I had a nightmare, the first of many: I was on the narrow ledge of a sheer rocky cliff by the sea. The roaring waves of the incoming tide were rising to engulf me. It was pitch dark, I was utterly alone, and I was petrified...
...evening of Aug. 30, while my daughter was attending a political meeting at her film studio, I was sitting alone in my study reading William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, which had come from a London bookshop with which I had an account. The house was very quiet. There was not the slightest sound or movement anywhere, almost as if everything in the house were waiting helplessly for its own destruction. Suddenly the doorbell began to ring incessantly. At the same time, there was a furious pounding of many fists on my front gate, accompanied...
...recent Forbes article was even entitled “Is Your BlackBerry Ruining your Sex Life?” These reports have been targeted at members of the workforce—from the up-and-coming attorney to the Fortune 500 CEO—yet have failed to account for the newest class of “CrackBerry” addicts: Harvard students...
...Friday night than it had put up in any of its previous three games, all losses, thanks mainly to its dead-eye three-point shooting. The Lions defeated the Crimson, 90-70, and shot a ridiculous 11-of-13 from three-point range in the opening frame to account for 33 of its 54 first-half points. “The official asked me at halftime if we normally shoot like this and obviously we don’t,” said junior forward John Baumann, who hit his only three field-goal attempts of the first half...
...number of scientists from various backgrounds were able to agree with such a high level of certainty. However, Holdren said, the price of such a consensus is an understatement of the severity of the consequences of global warming due to the wide range of views that were taken into account. “Most people who are experts would say the IPCC is a conservative floor on what we know,” he said. “The reality is likely to be worse than the middle of the road.” Addressing the ramifications of the panel?...