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...Dartboard and his fellow budding economist arrogantly strode into the nearly-empty Adams House dining hall—only to encounter the horror that is Restricted Hours. Dartboard pleaded with the card-checker to grant Dartboard and Friend passage into the kitchen. “The dining hall is practically empty!” Dartboard whined. Dartboard was rebuffed...
...temperature and conditions. Hit the Down arrow on your phone, and you get, among other things, a still radar image and a severe-weather advisory, if there is one. Although Weathernews lacks some of the data that other services provide, it has unique features, including an airport-weather checker and an alarm clock that wakes you early in inclement conditions. Check your carrier's website to see if these programs are available with your service and phone. --By Wilson Rothman
...thought I had my very first unqualified success when Lia, the QuincyHouse checker stopped me in the lunch line and said, “Honey, I saw your picture in the paper today!” That is, until she followed up with “Hi Dave!” This is particularly odd because I’m fairly certain that Lia has addressed me by my proper name before, or at least something vaguely approximating it. I’ve attributed the miscue to the pollack, which was on the lunch menu that day and has sometimes...
...bull--from your business writing, that is. Don't even try to "leverage synergies" or "incentivize" employees if you're using Deloitte Consulting's new Bullfighter software, designed to make business documents more readable. Bullfighter works like a spell checker in either Microsoft Word or PowerPoint and assigns documents a score based on sentence complexity and the use of some 350 "bullwords." Using Bullfighter, Deloitte found that among companies in the Dow Jones industrials, those that spoke plainly in shareholder letters and other communications outperformed those that loaded up on jargon. Bullfighter is available free...
When dining hall checker Domna Antoniou reprimanded Kazen for illegal advertising, he explained that without the sign, no one would know...