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...Cottonmouth, Copperhead, Black Mamba and Cottonmouth’s bodyguard Go Go Yubari. This is a Bad Thing, because the movie’s inspiration is 50 years of B-grade movies, a heritage lost as the movie becomes the newest trend. Since they are often unaware of its background, these trendy devotees run the risk of trivializing the history so key to auteur Quentin Tarantino’s passions. Woe on those of us whose private, beautiful passions have been swept up like so many proverbial pogs to be flipped and discarded. This is not just a Halloween-induced...
...position to contribute just as much as the rest of the class,” he says. “Everyone, no matter their background or working-world experiences, seems to universally have a wealth of leadership and life experiences. My classmates—some of whom are just arriving on campus from Iraq, some from McKinsey—are a truly fascinating group of people...
...Everyone at HBS has such different experiences that my coming straight from college is another unique background,” she says. “Of course, I stand out because I am younger—I have a lot of friends here who are 30, for example, so I went to my first 30th birthday party last week...
...practiced headstands, shoulder-stands and many meditative awareness exercises under the tutelage of McHardy, a former Bunting Institute fellow. While Gordon did enjoy the gymnastics, which are meant to improve posture and make one more aware of one’s body, he said McHardy, who describes her Buddhist background as the “Tibetan practice lineage,” was the key factor in his continued participation. “It was all Friendly Dragon,” Gordon says, using McHardy’s “play name,” an appellation each person spontaneously...
Sala-I-Martin has since moved on to The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. When students go to the Economics 1391 website to download the problem sets, not only do Mowgli, Ariel and Simba pop up on the screen, but the respective theme songs play in the background. “Problem sets need not be boring and dry,” Sala-I-Martin explains. His students agree. “The problem sets really are fun,” says Cristina M. Valverde ’06, “but everything he says in class...