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...Risky Business” event in Quincy dining hall last night. The dining hall was packed with slightly more women than men for the event, and students munched snacks or read fliers about Irvine and Kaplan as the audience filed in. To open the night, WIB played a clip from HBO’s Real Sports series showing Irvine plying his craft. When it finished, Irvine took the stage and began recounting his career in the business of gambling. Irvine, an MIT graduate who later earned a masters degree from Cornell and an MBA from Purdue, told how Edward Thorp?...
...sorry to see that Joe Klein has joined those who have misquoted Barack Obama's wife Michelle. In the film clip I saw of her making the statement in question, she did not say, as so many have suggested, "For the first time in my life, I am proud of my country." Rather, she said, "For the first time in my life, I am really proud of my country." The word really makes a huge difference and renders her statement perfectly defensible. It makes clear that she has been proud of her country all along, but now that a black...
...sorry to see that Joe Klein has joined those who have misquoted Michelle Obama. In the film clip I saw of her making the statement in question, she did not say, as so many have suggested, "For the first time in my life, I am proud of my country." Rather, she said, "For the first time in my life, I am really proud of my country." The word really makes a huge difference and renders her statement perfectly defensible. It makes clear that she has been proud of her country all along, but now that a black man (who just...
...failure of the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown era. The people who once famously claimed to be "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime" chose instead to be even tougher on the victims of crime. Some young hooded lout threatens you or your family's safety, so you clip his ear, and an army of social workers springs to his defense, while the full might and majesty of the law are brought down upon you, with all the consequent personal and financial penalties. Robert Frederick Birkett, SUFFOLK, ENGLAND...
...showed a video clip from his research that had involved interviews with thousands of college men about their sexual experiences...