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...turned 60 on Tuesday. Fatsis would know: while researching Word Freak, his bestselling 2001 book about the game's most fanatical players, he became a self-proclaimed word freak himself, and he's not alone. More than 150 million Scrabble sets have been sold in 121 countries since its creation...
...more than a decade he tweaked and tinkered with the rules while trying - and continually failing - to attract a corporate sponsor. The Patent Office rejected his application not once, but twice, and on top of that, he couldn't settle on a name. At first he simply called his creation "it" before switching to "Lexiko," then "Criss-Cross Words...
...restructuring proposal, GM called for the creation of a federal Oversight Board that would not only watch over the taxpayers' money but twist the arms of the company's creditors to get them to reduce their demands - essentially playing the role that a bankruptcy judge would if the company filed for Chapter 11. Almost everybody on Capitol Hill liked the idea, and the other two automakers endorsed it. But GM and Chrysler both say that because of plummeting auto sales they won't have enough cash to pay their bills by the beginning of next month, long before an effective...
...pushed a different view: that Nixon was, in Noam Chomsky's words, "in many respects the last liberal president." He cinched an arms control deal with the Soviets and established detente with China. Nixon's domestic achievements, as Temple University political science professor Kevin Arceneaux has outlined, include "his creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, Occupation Safety and Health Administration, and support for the clean water act, school desegregation, and affirmative action." You could say that the conservative agenda of the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations was to revoke, not FDR's New Deal, but Richard Nixon's liberal...
...nothing else than the sizable crowd for Girl Talk this past weekend at notoriously conservative Harvard. Given this comfort, the question now is how to move past the novelty of mashing up Mariah Carey and James Taylor, avoid another descent into nostalgia, and continue the eternal forward march of creation and discovery. Remarkably, in a security-obsessed era typified by Bloombergian, antiseptic New York and Big Brother London, people are leaning more and more toward experimentation and ingenuity. As a result of the commercialization of Disco, too many good ideas aren’t seen to fruition, and with...