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...just the other Office anymore. The remake of the great British sitcom has found its own voice, satirizing the culture of coffee, cubicles and Chili's with heart and laser precision. The deep bench of its cast provides a pointillistic taxonomy of American office life (who doesn't work with an Angela, a Kevin or a Stanley?). And the wistful Pam-and-Jim almost-romance--all together now: Awww!--threatens to give the Sam-and-Diane saga a run for its long-unconsummated money...
...They’re two of the best goalies in college hockey,” she added. “How could you have one on the bench...
...shining north star lines the back of the manger. Another large nativity scene sits in front of the statehouse at Boston Common. With the golden dome in the background, Christmas lights at the top of the manger illuminate a troubling scene: as a kind gentleman resting on a nearby bench pointed out, “the babe is missing.” It might be the work of vandals, or the baby Jesus might appear on the 25th. Either way, a solemn Mary and Joseph look solemnly upon a manger full of hay. For something a little closer to home...
...Harvard is to rightly consider itself a university that cares about the quality of the education that its students receive, it ought to remove from the teaching pool those professors whose allegiances are to their study carrel or their lab bench, and not to their students, undergraduates included. There is a place among the faculty for those who seek to contribute to human knowledge in the former fashion—that is, indirectly—and frankly, it’s unfortunate that we presently force them to compromise their research time for the sake of teaching wee, trivial undergraduates...
...Cloos while he was studying film as a graduate student. He remembers Cloos speaking about the hardships a woman farrier encounters in looking for dates. When she would ask a man out, she often would hear, “I would not want to date a woman who could bench-press me,” according to Conley.Although the job demands a high level of physical fitness, Ann Georgi says it is a cerebral occupation as well.“Figuring out horses, training them, competing, is tremendously intellectually challenging,” she says...