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Like being an online cult hero. There are these weird but wildly popular sayings like "Chuck Norris can divide by zero." To say I'm surprised is an understatement. I take it as a compliment...
...Matt Vance, Harvard baseball’s starting center fielder, is a real “California guy.” While in some spheres the description might suggest laziness, beach bum-ness, or overuse of the word “hella,” it remains a shining compliment when those who know Vance describe...
...said. “He’s not someone that I want to represent Harvard, not someone that I want to represent the seal, Veritas.” But Goodman did not only spit bile about Summers. At one point, she managed to get in a back-handed compliment to the Man. “At least his case of foot-and-mouth disease is not as bad as the nation’s president,” she said. Unlike at President Bush’s typical rallies, however, there was a dissenting voice. The usual liberal-feminist...
...necessarily his directing. He's famously hands-off in that department, which is just fine with Johansson. "I guess he hires actors he thinks will be capable of rounding out the characters he's written," she says. "I think actors appreciate that kind of respect." Allen has returned the compliment in the most meaningful way he can, by hiring Johansson for his next picture. It's a comedy called Scoop. And it's already...
...Judd mixes in the greenroom at a U2 show with Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway scooter and an aborning machine that makes even the filthiest water drinkable. Bill Gates goes to a nightclub, gets called a "bad mother______" by Diddy and understands that it is intended as a compliment. Of course, if Bono were to rely solely on his ability to get powerful people in a room with famous people and then hit them with a speech about moral obligations, he would be little more than the lead singer in the war on global poverty--a nice title...