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...exactly how she was captioned. Being on "Survivor" would be a career-topper for her, as well as a crack at that cool million. She took me through some of her life from the cotton fields of Alabama to her first chorus role on Broadway - age 17 - alongside Bert Lahr. I heard something about her performing a trick in which she could drive a golf ball 250 yards using my face as a tee before I made my excuses and deserted her for Kristin, who was in full safari garb, complete with a javelin...
...even count ballots. Worst of all, they make a travesty of popular government by giving the leadership of the free world to the guy who came in second. On a smaller scale, but with huge political implications, the same thing happened in Paris last week: Socialist Bert-rand Delanoë won only 49.6% of the popular vote but picked up a majority of municipal council seats because of a precinct-based voting system roughly similar to the U.S. Electoral College. So much for the French lesson in democracy...
...Rafelson, a jack-of-all trades hipster at Hollywood's fringes, and his partner Bert Schneider, decided to assemble a made-to-order rock 'n' roll band to star in a TV show. Rafelson claims he'd thought of it before "A Hard Day's Night," but whatever the case, the success of the Beatles movie, with the ur-rock video montage of "Can't Buy Me Love," greased the skids in a big way. Rafelson found himself deluged with applicants for the band, turning away the likes of Steven Stills before settling on the four lads who would succeed...
Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert R. Vaux is quoted as saying that "being a good teacher carries with it the implication that you are not a good scholar." This is certainly not true in the Physics Department, and I do not think it is true in most departments. The same clarity of thought and expression that makes a good teacher also contributes to being a good researcher and scholar. The late Richard Feynman was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Anyone who has seen the film of his lecture explaining the essence of quantum mechanics (which...
...Being a good teacher carries with it the implication that you are not a good scholar," Bert R. Vaux, associate professor of linguistics and teacher of the popular Social Analysis 34: "Knowledge of Language...