Word: calle
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...shows about the little guy struggling and the big guy brought low. On ABC's Hank, a CEO gets downsized; on Fox's Brothers, an NFL star goes broke; and on the same network's Sons of Tucson, a banker goes to jail for corporate crimes. (In Hollywood, they call that wish fulfillment.) The reality-show premises are even starker: "desperate" entrepreneurs plead for financing on ABC's Shark Tank; on Fox's Somebody's Gotta Go, employees of an actual small business each week will vote on which one of them should be laid off; on CBS's Undercover...
...visit from an American who swam unbidden to her lakeside residence May 3. While the Nobel Peace laureate reportedly urged 53-year-old John Yettaw of Falcon, Mo., to leave, she is charged with violating the terms of her detention and faces up to five years in prison. Analysts call the trial a ploy by the junta to keep Suu Kyi behind bars during next year's elections; her arrest came days before her scheduled release. While Suu Kyi, 63, appeared composed and vibrant at the trial, British ambassador Mark Canning saw little hope for her release: "This...
...gone unnoticed if not for the sharp ears and ready laptop of blogger Mayhill Fowler. Her scoop blindsided professional reporters and roiled the primary race--one of many instances in which Internet muckrakers made a difference in the campaign, argues Eric Boehlert. The former Salon and Rolling Stone writer calls this liberal "netroots" movement the strongest political force since the Christian right--one that, oddly, draws scant attention from the mainstream press. Boehlert finds engaging stories among his eccentric band of activists, including the paralegal who scored a personal call from Obama for running the candidate's largest MySpace...
...this evaluation surprising. But seeing it written down alongside a grade made me question whether I had drifted through my degree without ever becoming “educated” in some essential sense. Had I, I wondered, somehow failed to obtain what Harvard’s Core Curriculum calls “the knowledge, intellectual skills, and habits of thought” of an “educated” person?It is an odd moment to worry about such things. The educational requirements that I and my fellow seniors fulfilled are now being phased...
...guide two days before the final. Greg Mankiw: you taught me that you can still be listed as the instructor for a course while only giving three lectures a semester and selling each one of your students your $150 textbook—now that’s what I call cost/benefit analysis! To my expos class, you made me a better person. To my expos preceptor, you made me a man.Who knows, if the economy recovers, some of us might even become rich, but what will you do with your mammon? Will you give back to those who need...