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...rule’s repercussions. For the prodigious high school players that used to go directly to the NBA, like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, the route to the pros now involves an obligatory one-year stop in college. Superficially it would seem that some time in school is better than none at all. However, the “academic” trip these players take for one year devalues the traditional four-year American university education even more than them skipping college entirely would...
...video number two, "Bigger is Better," Brown and Harvard compare plans for the evening. Harvard's plans are to do work for his four classes, including "Dead White Guy Philosophy 101, Insider Trading 302," and "this graduate level seminar entitled 'Country Club Etiquette.'" (Must have missed that last one in the course guide.) The video concludes with this...
Sometimes, things come better in pairs...
...Nobu if they can't get bluefin? Half the time they don't even know what kind of tuna they're eating anyway. I recently had albacore sashimi in Michael Schulson's Izakaya at the Borgata in Atlantic City, N.J., and it was incredible - rich, silky, firm and, better still, something I hadn't already eaten 10,000 times. If a casino restaurant can do sushi like that, why can't everybody? And we diners have to do our part by refusing to order wild bluefin or even making our peace with a farmed tuna, if one ever make...
...hope is that Obama's tact and personal touch may have succeeded in patching up the running feuds between the Afghan leader and the top U.S. representatives in Kabul. For better or worse, Obama and Karzai are stuck with each other, and they will need each other's help if they are ever going to repair Afghanistan to the point that U.S. troops can starting heading back home...