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After all, this year did turn out to be quite a bore. Tiger was nowhere to be found for most of the tournament, Jim Nantz's color commentary grated on the nerves, and some guy named Vijay ended up winning it all by the comfortable margin of three strokes. I found myself sitting in front of my roommate's TV shaking my head. At that moment of despair, I realized that golf needed to spruce up its image in the coming years to attract the viewers necessary to compete with the likes of Chuck Norris...
...Science (1997) attracted a lot more attention and controversy--and with good reason. The idea that science may have had its run--that we've discovered all we can realistically expect to discover and that anything we come up with in the future will be pretty much small-bore stuff--left people either intrigued or outraged. With today's seemingly frenetic pace of scientific discovery, however, how can you say that the whole enterprise is coming to an end? The scientists I know, far from preparing for the undertaker, are ebullient about the future of their field...
...where some of the greatest culinary pleasures, such as kway chap (flat noodles with pig's stomach and intestines) and fish-head curry (self-explanatory), come from scraps. I am struck by the American aversion to eating internal organs or to dishes which too closely resemble the animal that bore them. It sometimes strikes me as disguised snobbery. Land of plenty, no need to eat the cheap parts--let's stigmatize all those poor people who have to. I wonder about the way people mock chitlin-eating: is it a disguised middle-class attack on the lower classes...
...unfortunate turn of events, both spring break contests bore eerie resemblance to similar losses for the Crimson last year...
Putin was lucky, but he also made his luck. Look at his eyes. Blue as steel. Cold as the Siberian ice. They bore into you, but you cannot penetrate them. Sometimes they're a mirror, reflecting what you want to see. Sometimes they're a mask disguising real intentions. Those eyes are Putin's strongest feature--not counting his unflinching will. He has proved a consummate opportunist, riding into office on loyalty to his bosses and then war fervor. President Putin will succeed where predecessors failed, says Chief of Staff and confidant Dmitri Kozak, "because the will is there. Discipline...