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...much a part of the cityscape as Mughal tombs and speeding auto rickshaws. Monkeys and humans have long coexisted in India, where Hindus consider the primates sacred. In the ancient Sanskrit epic The Ramayana, the monkey god Hanuman symbolizes wisdom, devotion, righteousness and strength. On most days, devout Hindus feed Delhi's monkeys a feast of bananas and peanuts...
...hasn’t studied enough, and the Internet provides a major distraction for many students and cuts into their study time. For instance, I once noticed that my sister, Kirsten, was on the Internet updating her Facebook.com profile the night before she had a big midterm (Facebook.com mini-feed, Oct. 29, 11:39 p.m.) It was a science midterm, and her lack of a Y-chromosome meant that she should have been studying extra hard to make up for her natural deficiencies in the field (Summers, Larry...
...making some huge saves for us, especially when we’re on the penalty kill so much.”Vaillancourt struck first for Harvard, notching her eighth goal of the year with six minutes remaining in the opening frame. Vaillancourt also assisted—with a sweet feed to Brine—on the team’s next score, tallied on the power play with 1:27 left in the period. That goal gave Harvard a comfortable 2-0 lead that stood up the rest of the way. Chu assisted on both goals to bump her season...
They are all like enthusiastic maids at a bazaar, who, having discovered the terrible joy of haggling, have forgotten that they must go back home to feed the children. In the process, the big questions have been left unanswered. Not only would the pragmatists have been more rigorous in their assessments, but one suspects they would have disagreed with the answers that Menand’s committee gave...
...with his trumped-out prole anthems “Allentown” and “The Downeaster Alexa,” conjuring up infinitely absurd images of Joel working in a steel mill, or relying on “the rod and the reel” to feed his family. Predating the Killers’ similar appropriation by several decades, Joel’s irony may have been unintended, but the best of the genre, and its musical ancestors, relied on a self-conscious tension between catchiness and acerbity...