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...seem as if the Crimson would accomplish much of anything against Dustin Traylen the following night, with Clarkson not only clearing the zone with great efficiency, but taking the momentum inside the Harvard zone and running time off the clock far from...
...first Walkmen album, Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone, actually sounds better to me coming through my alarm clock speakers. I don’t think it’s a fluke—the most compelling thing about that record is how their piano is mixed to sound like it’s punching through the cloud of thin, ringing guitar and hoarse drums (and it comes across just as energized and hypnotizing as the bassline in, say, Britney’s “Toxic”). The tinny speakers simply double the effect...
...told me that 15 people had signed up and that there were more males expected to attend than females. The first good news of the day. But as the minutes of the clock (and my biological clock) ticked on, there were no men in sight and Annie and I resigned ourselves to small-talk...
Even more so than George W. Bush, he is amply prepared to revolutionize the GOP, while many Republicans are still seeking to turn back the clock. In the long arc of the American political tradition, Arnold’s social liberalism is destined to prevail. He has already abandoned all opposition to abortion, homosexual “marriage” and gun control. A few years from now, it’s quite possible that the governor will be universally admired for his courage and foresight. To have any chance of winning future elections, Republicans must appeal beyond their evangelical...
...chess tournament in Tunisia in 1967, Bobby Fischer, then 24, was pitted against another American grand master, Samuel Reshevsky. At game time, Fischer was nowhere to be found, so Reshevsky sat down opposite Fischer's empty chair, made his first move, punched the game clock and waited. And waited. With five minutes left, Fischer suddenly strode onstage and, with a series of blindingly quick moves, hammered Reshevsky into defeat. Two days later, Fischer quit the tournament and abandoned competitive chess for two years. Which raises the question, Why is the gift of genius so often given to people too stupid...