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With pre-frosh weekend rapidly approaching, one Harvard first-year is hatching a devious scheme. It may seem obvious that the admissions office wants female pre-frosh staying with female students, but apparently this is never explicitly spelled out. This clever first-year, capitalizing on the ambiguity of the situation and what he believes is the gender ambiguity of his first name, has attempted to pass himself off as a female student to host unsuspecting female members of the class of 2006. “Call me S. Vanderweil. No wait, that’s too obvious, call me Stefan...
Author of What Would Machiavelli Do? and a columnist for FORTUNE magazine, Bing has written a wry 21st century courtier's manual that irreverently harnesses the wisdom of the ancient Zen masters. The elephants in this clever business handbook are the outsize ceos and captains of industry who take up all the air and space in every room they enter. Bing offers advice on the care and feeding of such corporate pachyderms, but, more important, he tells you how not to get trampled. Drain yourself of all hope, he says. Don't expect anything--especially kindness. And never, ever, criticize...
...witty post-punker he was in 1978, a bespectacled dork with a chip on his shoulder and an uncanny knack for turning out catchy tunes. This album is so much fun, and Costello's best in a long time, because of how often he returns to that clever post-punker mode. Instead of seeming dated, these moments feel right in tune with the current resurgence of guitar rock, and songs such as Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution) and 45 are as good as the better songs by any of Britain's current up-and-comers...
...blood skips a generation. Sage “had acquired from Grandpa (bad blood!) vanity, ambition and discontent along with literacy.” Yet though Sage is vain and selfish, she is also clever, shy and a book-lover. Interestingly, she never learns how to tell time but can translate Latin effortlessly...
...meet “the new guy,” he says. “I was immersed, infatuated. I was kind of like a celebrity. The attention was very intoxicating.” Looking back, Meagher now considers all of the attention paid him merely a very clever recruiting strategy...