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...Charismatic, charming and appealing to all ages" is how Ben Mulroney's employer CTV describes him. The kind of attributes ideal for a career in politics, one might think. But Mulroney, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, has resisted the pull of Parliament and has made his mark in showbiz. He has presented all five series of Canadian Idol since...
...placebo effect with Heath bar or “cookie bar” flavors. A group of Wellesley students at Herrell’s, digging deep into their stores of womanly knowledge, recommends a well-known brand of ice cream from outside the Square. “Ben and Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie,” says Hana S. Freymiller. Her classmate, Lindsey N. Fix, has a more creative suggestion. “Ben and Jerry’s Fossil Fuel: for small, amphibious babies,” she says. Hopefully, this refers to the chocolate dinosaurs...
...surprising twist, both Harvard and MIT got their asses kicked: The winner of the tournament—and a Nintendo Wii—was Ben B. Minkoff, a high school student visiting his sister. "I don’t know if I felt like it was really luck...I feel like I might be the best player there," Minkoff says...
Another time, during a jocular skirmish, my roommate graffitied on the wall (in pencil, of course), “Ben is a faggot.” We look back on this and laugh: The day a hate crime was visited on Currier House...
...wrong time, million-dollar stock trades could be missed and automated equipment in emergency rooms or manufacturing plants could malfunction - to name some worst-case scenarios. There's also the worry of cascading failures. "Changing the time zone in some applications might throw others out of whack," says Ben Kus, senior technology director at BigFix, a computer management firm. Even if fears of Y2K hysteria are overblown, analysts say, many offices will be nettled by out-of-synch e-mail and Microsoft Outlook calendars - in other words, a lot of missed meetings. Rich Kaplan, Microsoft's vice president of customer...