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...than 30 e-mails a day just about the conference and lots of long phone conversations.” But even as she ran around trouble-shooting, she had another thing on her mind: business school apps were due that week. She somehow succeeded in balancing an overfilled Gmail box, hundreds of ambitious pant-suited college businesswomen, a frustrating rainstorm, and dreaded grad school essays. All of her applications were in on time, and, she said, “The conference was a success.” Borden’s success in the extracurricular realm hasn?...
...current form, FirstDefender is a portable, 4-lb. box that costs about $30,000, which means you won't find it in every cop car quite yet. But Ahura plans to slim the device to the size of a cell phone and reduce its cost with advances in technology to make it a more practical everyday tool for emergency responders...
...could not contain. Nwadike grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds, including eight on the offensive glass to help the Blue Devils score 18 second chance points. “Nwadike [was] just being a bull,” Sullivan said. “We couldn’t box him out. We really talked about it, I think everybody understood it—he’s a tough guy to box out.”Nwadike was able to single-handedly match the rebounding effort of Stehle, who had 10 boards, and Cusworth, who had six. Overall, the Blue...
...song—which honored the box office of “The 40 Year-Old Virgin”—was a hit with the studio audience for two main reasons. One is its accuracy: having money fall from his ass is maybe the only way Steve Carell could increase his stock among Hollywood executives, who have already signed him to eight movies in the next two years. The other is how the song allows Carell to play off his own demeanor, to hysterical ends. The real Steve Carell is quiet, self-effacing, and reluctant to accept praise...
...obvious answer is “box-office brilliant,” as mentioned in his SNL song. Others would say a comedic pop icon. In any case, the appeal of watching Steve Carell is the fact that he doesn’t know or even wonder how success might have changed his life, preferring to allocate his mental resources to enjoying the ride...