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...with the team score overall, because we had all the Ivy schools represented there,” Harvard coach Kevin Rhoads said. “Not that it’s any indication of what will happen next week, but it’s nice to do well in comparison to the other Ivy schools that we’ll be playing against when it matters even more next week. On the team side, I’m not displeased at all with what happened...
Unfortunately, the World Cup evictions are a pittance in comparison to the roughly 500,000 people that have been evicted from their homes in the service of national development projects, since the advent of truly representative democracy in 1994. South Africa’s constitution defines housing as a human right, but as much as a quarter of South Africa’s population live in “shack dwellings” where large families live in cramped squalor underneath thin scrap metal with intermittent access to clean water and power. To make matters worse, the Slums Act, passed...
...potential of the College’s proposed one-week experience is, in comparison, limited to a shallow understanding of the same material. Internalization of concepts, of whatever type and purpose, takes more than eight days, and thus the week threatens to be nothing more than a cram session...
...compares the theatrical experience to that of a hunt, insofar as the audience experiences a primal drive to follow the plot along. He uses this metaphor to account for the suspension of disbelief: “We suspend the rational process of intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow for the hunt.” The connection he draws between the theater and the primal rings true, even if the analogy he uses to explicate his point is a bit overwrought...
Here's the deal: when the studios release their weekend grosses on Sunday morning, they have hard numbers for Friday, rough estimates for Saturday, and for Sunday they use a combination of exit-polling, comparison of their movies with others in the same genre, bracketology and tea leaves. In other words, they guess. Sometimes they guess wrong. On the first Sunday of June last year, Warner Bros. announced that its new comedy The Hangover had taken in $43.3 million, which made it second to Pixar's animated feature Up, at $44.2 million. The final count showed that The Hangover...