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...life of the brilliantly subversive Scottish writer and artist Alasdair Gray has often seemed one of chaos and dissipation. Things don't look much better up close in Rodge Glass' Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, which variously paints him as garrulous, self-centered and a "bloody devious old bastard" to boot. That's probably not the picture Gray had in mind when he agreed to let Glass, his factotum and former student, be his biographer and shouted, "Be my Boswell ... Tell the world of my genius...
...itself but it also stands at the crossroads of many other disciplines,” said Maria Tatar, a professor of Germanic languages and literature and the current Folk and Myth chair. Mitchell agreed, using a less traditional analogy.“Folklore is sometimes referred to as the bastard child that English begot on anthropology,” Mitchell said. “I wear it as a badge of honor. What they’re really trying to say is that we bridge the social sciences and humanities.”Both said that an undergraduate degree...
...dancers rose about 40 percent when they reached their peak fertility. Literature winner David Sims also said he was “delighted” to learn that he would receive a prize this year. Sims was awarded for his study on conflict, entitled “You Bastard: A Narrative Exploration of the Experience of Indignation within Organizations.” A follower of the Ig Nobel Prizes, Sims said he believed the awards were “a lovely idea. Laughter is part of how we open our minds up.” Amelia...
...running 200 to 1 against the bailout leveled out. He said half the callers were thrilled with his no vote but "the other half are looking at their 401(k)s drop[ping] $50,000 in a day, and they call and scream at me and say, You rat bastard, I'm never voting for you again!" Representative Elton Gallegly, a 64-year-old California Republican who voted no, said his hostile-call ratio went virtually overnight from 40 to 1 to a mixed bag--and he can understand why, because he lost $50,000 in savings on Monday...
...after the huge market drop, only about half the people calling his office congratulated him for voting against the bill. "The other half are looking at their 401(k) drop $50,000 in a day, and they call me up and scream at me and say, 'You rat bastard, I'm never voting for you again!' " he says...