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...believe strongly that his spirit was never released.' HARLYN GERONIMO, great-grandson of the famous Apache warrior, who is suing Yale University's élite secret society Skull and Bones, charging that its members robbed his great-grandfather's grave...
...faced her first bull at 13 and notched more than 750 kills during a storied career. Conchita Cintrón, 86, one of the first famous female bullfighters, is still considered among the best...
Human beings are irrational about dreams the same way they are irrational about a lot of things. We make dumb choices all the time on the basis of silly information like racial bias or a misunderstanding of statistics - or dreams. Morewedge and Norton quote one of the most famous modern studies to demonstrate our collective folly, from a paper written by psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman that was published in Science in 1974. In that paper, Tversky and Kahneman discuss an experiment in which subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of African countries represented in the U.N. Before...
...lacks the open kitchen of the Jamaica Plain location, Kranyak aims to keep the experience intimate and personalized, with “the same sort of romantic setting” as the original. Nico Herregodts, the general manager of Ten Tables, said he switched from Boston’s famous L’Espalier because he wanted to work in a smaller restaurant. “L’Espalier was a family business when I started in 2000, now it’s really growing,” he said. “I like more the little places...
...mail list explaining that the implicit association of “mobsters” with Italian culture still offends many people who share her heritage and requested they consider another design for the shirt. The message was polite, made no accusations, and presumed upon Harvard students’ justly famous cultural understanding...