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...devious. It was ugly. And maybe it was a little bit petty. But Harvard's men's volleyball team was smirking after destroying Roger Williams Tuesday night in Providence, smirking like a little boy who has just beaten up the grade school wise...
...million HBO earmarked for the project probably came in handy too. The film remains reasonably faithful to the spirit of the book, while vastly simplifying the plot. Whereas Burrough and Helyar recount a story that involves dozens of rapacious financiers, greedy executives, odious publicists, duplicitous bankers and devious attorneys, hbo has boiled down the cast of characters to only about a dozen. But they're all pretty avaricious, devious, duplicitous or odious, so very little has been lost in translation...
...crucial question raised by such devious behavior is, To what degree does an animal actually understand what's in its rival's mind? If an animal knows when another creature is misinformed or has valuable knowledge, it gains an enormous advantage. In the late 1980s, a pioneer of animal-language work came up with an ingenious way of probing this question...
These behaviors are certainly clever, but what do they mean? Was Newton really devious? Can a cat really crave privacy on the potty? In short, do household pets really have a mental and emotional life? Their owners think so, but until recently, animal-behavior experts would have gone ballistic on hearing such a question. The worst sin in their moral vocabulary was anthropomorphism, projecting human traits onto animals. A dog or a cat might behave as if it were angry, lonely, sad, happy or confused, but that was only in the eye of the beholder. What was going on, they...
This isn't to say that resident tutors aren't nice people, or that they undertake the job with the devious intention of siphoning off undergraduate resources. I have rarely met a tutor who was not likable. It's just that I'm not in the habit of paying to put up my friends...