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...light of today's SAT for prospective Harvard students, here's an SAT style analogy. As we walked into Memorial Field, attendants were passing out Dartmouth license plate frames, a cheap gimmick to attract fans. So here's the analogy: Harvard Stadium:Memorial Field::The Harvard Crimson: ?? Answer in five minutes...
...campaigns, meanwhile, also learned to use new media to keep the news monster appeased. Web ads were the Molotov cocktails of campaign 2008: quick, cheap and explosive--the more outrageous, the more likely to get embedded on blogs and played for free on the news. One zany McCain ad, made around Obama's summer trip to Europe, likened Obama to actor (and pop star in Germany) David Hasselhoff. Attention-getting? Definitely. Comprehensible? Does it matter...
...best MacBook feature, however, is the Leopard operating system, which I find so much simpler, more stable and more straightforward than Windows Vista. The only possible argument anyone can make in the latter's favor is that, well, it powers some mighty cheap machines. And so, in summary, just as the political pundits have done lately, I'll paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes: taxes are the price we pay for civilized computers...
...national morale has never since been so high. Another of our greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, looked to the arts to restore the confidence of the American people in the depths of the Great Depression, because no matter what congressional Republicans say, art is cheap. The NEA didn’t exist until 1965, but in 1935, when the unemployment rate was over 20 percent, Roosevelt created over 40,000 government jobs for artists under the Works Progress Administration. In 1995, the year before the Congress’s massive blood-letting, the NEA?...
...trading centers that stretched across the continent's north. As the days grow gloomier in October, the atmosphere lends itself to the appearance of apparitions-imagined or not. Low clouds scud across the gray Baltic waters. The streets empty out as summer visitors who came for the parties and cheap beer head home. Centuries of sieges, plagues and political intrigues leave a catalogue of spine-chilling tales: screams emanating from the "Maiden's" tower on the edge of the high town where prostitutes in the Middle Ages were once imprisoned; spectral wanderings of a French mercenary who fought...