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...early days of Newman's 50-year marriage to actress Joanne Woodward: "Newman understood what a deal he was getting. For one thing, he was enormously impressed with Joanne's acting talent, which was much more instinctual than his burning-the-midnight-oil style. And because he was enjoying the life of a movie star, he understand what she had effectively given up for him ... He tried to dote on her, but he was clumsy in the effort in an earnest and somewhat cloddish fashion. 'For quite a while after we were married,' she remembered, 'he'd send me flowers...
...take a look at our excesses as a society rather than just go, 'Hey, silly pictures.'" But this is a recession, and everyone's hoping to capitalize in one way or another. Spags admits that he would like to use the site as a springboard for a possible book deal, but feels that "any revenue I'd make off of the site itself" - it currently generates none - "would cheapen what the site is all about." No pun intended...
...interacting with their friends on Facebook. The press recently reported that Google (GOOG) has created software that can predict whether its employees will quit. The next step will be that the search company will forecast which people it will fire. That should save its human resources staff a great deal of time and anguish. Google may even find that HR is not necessary. Software can perform all of the functions that a human can. (Read: "How Not to Be Hated on Facebook: 10 More Rules...
...Having made these arguments, it would be wrong to claim that there is a satisfactory status quo for ROTC at Harvard. While the aforementioned poll has stirred up a great deal of controversy (not limited to our campus), the recent HRC campaign has contributed productively to the debate over official recognition by bringing to light the struggles and concerns expressed by ROTC members on campus. If cadets and midshipmen feel “unwelcome” or even “degraded,” as Weatherl writes, by the atmosphere at Harvard—even to the extent that...
...fast, say Barcelona officials. "If you're a patient, the person whose diagnosis you're going to trust is the doctor treating you," says Miquel Trepat, director of Barcelona Zoo. "And in this case, our veterinarians and technicians - the people who deal with Susi every day - say that she's in a perfect state of health." To be clear, he emphasizes, "Susi's behavior hasn't changed since Alicia died." (See 10 animal species in danger of extinction...