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...person who clicks his Bic - or, if he's using matches, snicking his stick. Metaphorical: Smoking can represent passive surrender (one ingests the drug without a much greater expenditure of energy than an opium den denizen) or an active assertion of ego (exhaling smoke extends your "space," creates a cloud, a gentle miasma, a box around you). A cigarette is an undomesticated pet: a tiny dragon (drag-on) between the fingers, allowing you to emphasize a verbal point with a plume of smoke or, when puffed, with the dragon's flash of fire...
...Crescent, that prides itself on investing for the long haul. He keeps most of his own money in the Crescent fund, hasn't taken any out since he bought his house seven years ago and turns away would-be market timers at the door. There's no ethical cloud hanging over Romick's fund, but he suspects some people are too scared of funds like his to give it a try. He shakes his head with a disgusted sigh. "Individual investors are starting to feel like the game is rigged," he says...
...John Cloud's view of the New SAT provided a compelling account of the social politics behind high-stakes standardized testing. He also exposes an important tension within the New SAT's guiding principles. The College Board is right to be concerned about performance gaps among different demographic groups, but making the SAT more of an achievement test than a so-called aptitude test may exacerbate the problem. Changing the test to produce socially desirable results can distract attention from a greater problem: unequal access to excellence in education. Until the nation's schools begin providing equal education...
...team’s first nonconference game, and against a cross-town rival no less, would set a strong tone for the month of December, when the Crimson will travel to Ithaca, skate at BC and at home against UMass, and in Providence for a holiday tournament against St. Cloud State and (likely) Providence...
...never been hugged by a cloud before, but it felt good,” Contrucci said...