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After the overwhelming—and overwhelmingly deserved??success of “The Office” and “Extras,” both co-created with Merchant, I can’t imagine Gervais is looking to make a quick buck. He believes in “The Ricky Gervais Show,” because he believes that the world needs to meet Karl Pilkington and probe his brain. And it does—my own fanaticism stops just short of distributing religious tracts honoring Karl in the Times Square subway station. If a spoonful...
...rather dwells upon the consequences of economic “structural adjustment.”Fmylife works by presenting an array of reader-submitted faux pas, each concluding with the initialism-exclamation “FML”, and allowing readers to vote on who “deserved?? it and whose life is really “f***ed.”The top anecdotes tend to follow a certain pattern: a brief recount of one of life’s little disappointments, followed by a twist of the knife that makes it just that much worse...
Harvard’s reputation as the finest university in the world is largely deserved??it is America’s oldest institution of higher learning, its endowment is greater than the GDP of over 100 countries, and its roster of prize-winning academics—here presumably to teach the thinkers and leaders of tomorrow—is unparalleled. In fact, despite the constant complaints about how social life at Harvard is only mildly preferable to watching paint dry, I would venture to say that most of us here probably chose Harvard because we wanted to learn...
...fair, the voters made a few accurate picks. In the eighth spot with 24 points—24 more than it deserved??sits Columbia. The Lions were terrible last season. Ostensibly, they spent the off-season getting worse. Columbia graduated its top quarterback, running back and tight end from a team that managed just 99 points in seven Ivy games last year. With just one All-Ivy caliber skill position player, the Lions might be lucky to hit half of that this season...
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