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...percent of their existence as hunter-gatherers, a profession for which they remain genetically adapted. The distinction between hunters and gatherers is, for the most part, a sexual one: 50,000 years ago, men single-mindedly focused on their prey in the sub-Saharan plain while women became adept at multi-tasking, gathering a variety of foods and ensuring the safety of their offspring. Our current gender-stratified social system did not emerge from a philosophical abyss; it evolved over tens of thousands of years as a function of the behavioral characteristics that allowed us to coexist and thrive...
...Roberta Flack's The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face and Bread's truly horrible AM-radio hit If from years of accumulated treacle by tinkling out the barest hint of melody, confidently letting each note float around until it resolves itself in your head. He's equally adept at spelling his minimalism with funk on the original Ellen's Song, and closes with a solo version of Lord, I Give Myself to You, in which he harmonizes with himself in glorious fashion...
...ITES ALWAYS SEE THEMSELVES AS THE victims," Khalilzad says as his convoy pulls up to the U.S. embassy, temporarily housed in what used to be Saddam Hussein's main palace. But Sunnis too are adept at the politics of victimhood. Later in the day, the ambassador holds a closed-door meeting in his small office with two representatives of the Sunni parties. One of them, Iyad al-Samarrai, then told TIME they asked Khalilzad to have U.S. forces stop the killing of Sunnis by Shi'ite death squads...
...conflate them with the true ironists on campus—members of final clubs.Many people consider members of final clubs to be fully honest in their matching ties and manly cavorting. This is not the case in the least. In fact, the males of final clubs are such adept practitioners of irony that even people who pride themselves on their so-called “ironic” senses of humor cannot catch them in the act I realized this during this autumn’s “punch” process. Politely, I would ask my final club...
...think I had less than that if you really counted them.”Penn, which entered the game averaging 18-and-a-half attempts from the free throw line during the Ivy season, made 26 trips and converted 17 on the game. Harvard, normally adept at getting to the line more than its opponent, had just 12 attempts on the game. “We did have to play through a lot of non-calls, I thought,” freshman point guard Drew Housman said. “I think we handled adversity really well. Instead of complaining...