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...hard to pinpoint exactly why these animals are so darn cute; maybe it's their small size relative to their fellow primates. Maybe it's their flirty, innocent playfulness. A snow white sifaka putting on a show before a crowd of onlookers, swinging back and forth - it's so toe-curlingly kawaii, as our Japanese traveling companions put it, you could die. Though cuteness alone isn't likely to save the lemurs from the forces that threaten them - hunting, deforestation and habitat destruction - it certainly puts them in a better position than their homelier endangered peers...
...smug dismissal of Rogoff’s point and our confidence in our own brilliance shouldn’t obscure the facts. Some middle-of-the-road analyses by the free-market crowd at the University of Chicago find that about 15 percent of jobs on Wall Street are part of the bubble and won’t be replaced even when the finance industry regains its longterm health. And that too may not be for sometime. As Rogoff said in an interview with The Crimson on Tuesday, “we might be back at full steam...
...grass-roots wing of the party as slightly unhinged. Former Phoenix mayor Skip Rimsza likes to call the anti-McCain conservatives "CAVE" men (Citizens Against Virtually Everything). Magruder wrote me an e-mail touting his conservative credentials and support of tough border enforcement and insisting that "the hard-line crowd is irrational. They want to incite people to fear, and that is a dangerous thing to watch." Says ASU's Berman: "These guys are not easy to please. These guys were even after [conservative icon Barry] Goldwater for a while. They wanted to strip his name off party headquarters...
...years as both the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. When Heaney, a Nobel laureate, took the stage, he described it as “one of the greatest moments in my life,” and although he promised the crowd nothing, he certainly performed. In her introduction, Vendler called Heaney “a poet of Ireland and of the world,” which recalled a line from his Nobel lecture: “I credit poetry...both for being itself and for being a help, for making possible...
...problem is not that there isn’t enough food, but that food is being displaced into non-food uses and the food that’s left is too expensive,” Offenheiser told the crowd in the north building of the Center for Government and International Studies...