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...Nutrition is...”—and a dry erase marker. True to form, all sorts of originality exploded into print. In some cases, they exploded a little too much—the board in Cabot had to be removed due to vandalism. Knowing that die-hard Quadlings take nutrition to the extreme, FM set out to see what other houses...
...nation. A century ago, Russell Conwell, a Baptist preacher, distilled this gospel in his speech "Acres of Diamonds." Through some 6,000 public appearances, the tireless Conwell told his exotic story of a man who left his farm to search the globe for gems, only to die penniless and bereft - while the world's largest diamond mine lay waiting to be discovered on the man's original acreage. In every life, Conwell preached, untold riches wait just beneath the surface, because our success is God's will...
Cricket is often likened to a religion in South Asia, and just as people sometimes die - or are killed - for religion, the noblest of sports now seems to have claimed a victim of its own. Last Sunday, Pakistan's coach, the 58-year-old Englishman Bob Woolmer, was found dead in his Jamaica hotel room hours after his highly ranked team had been eliminated from cricket's World Cup by rank outsiders Ireland...
...passionately not because they truly think sport is a matter of life and death, but despite the fact they know it's not. When fanaticism starts hurting people, killing them, even, that contradiction vanishes and so does all the joy. It's OK to live for sport, but to die for it is absurd...
...Last year, I realized that when I die, a triple-overtime thriller in the New Haven twilight may very well be the single greatest game I’ve ever witnessed in person. Last month, I realized that Bill Cowher’s jaw really is as, um, “defined” in person as it looks...