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...wontons, grilled mushrooms and "coffin cakes," the local version of pot pies. It's all good, but the people watching is better. Off the main drag, an elderly man squats beside his own low-tech incarnation of an ice cream truck-a weather-beaten bicycle with a jury-rigged cooler lashed to the back. He rings a bell and awaits his next customer. But he looks in no hurry; in time, they will come...
...solely on your own performance and not on the performance of other competitors. For instance, my performance goal for each column is to have it be funnier than my last piece. I want it be so funny that when everyone reads it they think about how much awesomer and cooler I am than all of the other Crimson columnists...
Sutton cops to as much in a penultimate chapter titled "The Virtues of Assholes." His solution is to keep a token terror--one brilliant bully per office. Sounds reasonable. But beware, he warns: One jerk's nastiness can pollute the water cooler. Maybe that's not such a bad thing. We can all use a shot of malevolence now and then...
...commentary with a common (if slightly waning) pastime for American kids, that’s all the better. It’s the same way we strive to create edutainment video games and emulate Blue’s Clues on TV. The difference is that Captain America is way cooler than talking religious vegetables or that weird Steve guy on Nickelodeon...
...release. The prospect has stirred calls from some that Germany give no quarter to those who "mercilessly killed wives, men and fathers with the aim of destroying our democracy," as Volker Kauder, leader of the ruling Christian Democratic Union faction in the Bundestag, said recently. Others insist on a cooler approach. "Terrorism is a challenge for all of us," said Wolfgang Kraushaar, a political scientist at Hamburg's Institute for Social Research and co-author and editor of a 2006 history of the RAF. "But this was 30 years ago. It is important to draw a line...