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...Please stop telling everyone to get bikes. It is stupid. If I wanted a damn bike, I'd have gotten one already. I don't want one. It's expensive, I can't carry stuff with me, it might get stolen, and when there is a blizzard on December 15 next year in the middle of finals, you won't be able to use it. You can't wear a suit or other dress clothes on one, especially in the winter when they will get ruined.” (Mckinsey's info sesh, 2:45am, Faculty Club...

Author: By Meaghan E Lyons | Title: Budget Plinko, Part II: Shuttle Shafting | 5/12/2009 | See Source »

Roosevelt was enormously popular (hence the fourth term), and later administrations have tried to associate themselves with his early success. "Jerk out every damn little bill you can," President Lyndon Johnson reportedly commanded his strategist Larry O'Brien in 1965. "Put out that propaganda ... that [we've] done more than they did in Roosevelt's hundred days." Propaganda or not, Johnson actually had a very effective 100-day run: after being sworn in as Kennedy's sudden and unexpected successor, he advanced the passage of the Civil Rights Bill, established the Warren Commission to investigate J.F.K.'s assassination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 100-Day Benchmark: It All Started with Napoleon | 4/29/2009 | See Source »

...their first new cars, they'll be looking at the brands they know best, just as their father did a generation ago. Their old man wishes, in his heart, that they could buy a Pontiac. But his brain, and his wallet, dictate otherwise. Pontiac didn't give a damn when it lost me as a buyer 30 years ago, but I find myself profoundly saddened by its passing. Turns out that I may have cared more than they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pontiac, RIP: A Love Affair Gone Sour | 4/28/2009 | See Source »

...audience unwilling to study quantum physics and comparative religion to watch Lost; who do not have a Slingbox stacked on a TiVo on top of an Apple TV; who simply want to turn on a TV set at the end of a long day and watch an uncomplicated damn TV show, in real time, on the hour, the way God intended. (See the 50 best inventions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mentalist: CBS's Psychic Friend | 4/27/2009 | See Source »

Well, the Concert Commission must not have done a good job cleaning up those boys because they looked pretty damn greasy up on stage later that night. Next to all that laser light and steam clouds, they nearly glistened...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: That Guy from Ratatat Takes a Shower | 4/19/2009 | See Source »

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