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With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels like the work space of an investment banker or hedge-fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, the daytime television show flickering on his sleek, flat-screen set betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
...past, law enforcement often relied on officers who were close to retirement or on "desk status" to serve as crime scene investigators, but there's now recognition that criminologists need a solid science background. "There has been a change in mentality," Byrd says. "CSI has glamorized the work and that has caused a lot of attention and with publicity there often comes funding...
...Like Jules Verne, Hergé rarely left his desk, but he made Tintin a world traveler, meeting cultures that his creator encountered only in books and magazines. Over the course of the books (Hergé would call them albums), Tintin acquired a panoply of colorful companions: his faithful dog Snowy; his hard-drinking, foul-mouthed friend Captain Haddock; egghead Professor Calculus; bumbling detectives the Thompson Twins; and overbearing opera diva Bianca Castafiore...
...chose mostly C’s, your study style is...“Debbie at my Desk.” You don’t see the point of leaving your room, because everything is already in it. You probably spend a lot of time playing TextTwist and napping in between pounding out essays, and there is a 95% chance the last person you interacted with was the annoying Dining Hall Ditz (see above) you mistakenly encountered when you left your room three days ago. Big mistake...
...never learned proper library etiquette. Here are some helpful hints as you prepare to move into Lamont, permanently. Don’t leave your stuff at a study space and bounce. There’s nothing more annoying than trudging to the library only to find all the desks “occupied,” half of them by phantom students who left their books there to claim territory. On that note, sprawling is bad for the environment—don’t take up more than one desk with all of your crap. Don?...