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Carl Ehrlich ’09 has been eating the same burger almost every night for the past four years: a double cheeseburger with pickles, two packets of mustard and two packets of ketchup. Erhlich, captain of Harvard’s football team, a blogger for Go Crimson, and an aspirant novelist with a secondary in philosophy, was also the winner of b. good’s Cousin Oliver contest. He, in other words, is entitled to free burgers from the Dunster Street joint for the rest of his life.Four years ago, when Ehrlich was a freshman, b. good offered...
...downplays the cultural idiosyncrasies of each specific language. "They just throw it out there at the student," says Mark Kaiser, associate director of the Berkeley Language Center. "They fail to present language as a representation of that language's culture." Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss, a regular language acquisition blogger who has become fluent in Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese, is quick to credit Rosetta Stone for engaging more people in language learning. However, Ferriss argues that by shunning grammar and exercises leveraging one's native language, Rosetta Stone slows the learning process. "There's a real benefit to having...
...eight-year imprisonment sentence any less disturbing. Likewise, the media’s hype and portrayal of her as a pure beauty pageant queen to be rescued by the West from the dragon’s mouth just shortly after the silent death of a 29-year-old blogger in prison, Omidreza Mirsayafi, and the White House’s and Secretary of State’s parental support of her case surely take away from the public’s sympathy towards Saberi but are irrelevant to her irrevocable right to a fair trial...
...reporter for The Washington Globe who begins to unravel a government conspiracy while investigating the death of a research assistant to Congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck)—coincidentally Cal’s friend and college roommate. Accompanied by Della Frye (Rachel McAdams), a young but eager political blogger for The Globe, Cal discovers that at the center of the plot is PointCorp, a private company bidding for Defense Department contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan that Collins is investigating.Based on a BBC television miniseries, the film follows the basic conventions of a political thriller. Macdonald includes the obligatory love...
ACQUITTED After his January arrest, South Korean economic blogger Park Daesung, 31, was freed when a judge ruled there was no evidence that he intended to "undermine public interest" with his attacks against the government's response to the financial crisis...