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...name is The New Yorker; the shame is a reminder of our intellectual impotence and poor time-management skills. The cartoons are the only thing we read; we do it even though it makes us feel bad. FM got to interview the New Yorker’s cartoon editor Bob Mankoff when he guest-lectured at Harvard Medical School Professor Nancy Etcoff’s Psychology 987i: Science of Happiness lecture. We talked about God, Summers, and laughter, which, in Mankoff’s words, is the one “reflex which immobilizes us, which prepares...
...with it, as the littered tray gets/ on, but when Bob from the Grille arrives you aren’t there/ or have adopted a different attitude...
...like, maybe play some JV, play some Division III baseball or something like that.”In Harvard’s Early Action group, Brown gained admission to the Class of 2006, based entirely upon his student record. Dartmouth admitted him in the spring, but Big Green coach Bob Whalen made no promises about baseball.Brown arrived in Cambridge in the fall.“The first week I was here...I was so scared to go down and play baseball,” Brown says. “Because I used to see the guys eating in Annenberg...
Dubai certainly isn't short on big names coming to its aid. Power brokers Bill Clinton and Bob Dole (whose spouse is a North Carolina Senator), along with Madeleine Albright's lobbying shop, have advised DP World. Clinton has described the U.A.E. as a model Middle East government and in 2002 gave two speeches in Dubai, pulling in $450,000. Nor is the Bush Administration unfamiliar with DP World. Critics grouse that Treasury Secretary John Snow's former company, transportation giant CSX, sold its international port operations to DP World in 2004, for $1.15 billion. Dubai also works with...
...President Dick Cheney accidentally shot him, Texas lawyer Harry Whittington is back to his routine, working all day at his office in Austin, Texas, his friends say. Whittington, who turned 79 last week, won't comment, but the facial wounds from the bird shot are "almost unnoticeable," says restaurateur Bob Woody. "He's back, full force." Whittington's card-playing buddy Joe Greenhill, a retired Texas Supreme Court justice, says, "He's been besieged with people who want him to be their lawyer." And here's an odd sign of Whittington's fame: a collector asked if Whittington would sell...