Word: adaptibility
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Grisham's Law It should be a snap to adapt a John Grisham thriller. Read the novel, compress the exciting first half, rewrite the rest, keep it moving. Well, the films of The Firm and The Pelican Brief maunder and mope as if Grisham were Graham Greene. Not that it makes any difference. The Firm was 1993's third biggest grosser; Pelican is a cool Christmas...
...rest of the year as a loss. The aim is to relaunch Bush's presidency in January with a new agenda rolled out in his State of the Union address, now that Social Security reform lies crumpled in a ditch. But to do that, he would need to adapt the style and system that served him well for four years but has now demonstrably failed; add new blood to a team that functions as a palace guard but not as an early-warning system or idea factory; and summon the charisma from his days as a candidate to reconnect with...
...experiencing the Square, where I can have a burger at Bartley’s, shop at the Harvard Book Store, grab dessert at Toscanini’s, and catch a movie at the Brattle. We have to get together with local business and figure out how to preserve and adapt.”DVD WARFARESome might argue that, although the romantic night on the Square Murphy described might be nice enough for local Cantabrigians, a typical night for most Harvard students is the dining hall to Lamont to bed. What is the loss, then, of just one more activity...
...internet and having PCs has made people stay up later than they used to and we’re becoming much more of a 24-hour community and the college needs to adapt,” former SAC Chair Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06 says...
...fact, a couple of goal kicks and punts from freshman goalie Jarret Leech simply were blown out of bounds before they even reached the midline. Despite the Crimson’s obvious advantage that helped it get a number of early chances to catch the Bears struggling to adapt to the conditions, in the end Brown captured the upwind break to go up 1-0.“The strategy in the first half was try to get it in behind them as quickly as we could and when we did that in the first 30 minutes I thought...