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...rang Bert up. I was working on a trading floor at the time, so a lot of the mechanics, if you like, made sense to me because that's was what I was dealing with on a trading floor in a slightly different format...
...ADAY)!” has become the cry to rally support among Canaday Hall residents who hope to dispute the Freshman Intramural (IM) staff’s decision to change the format of its spring tennis tournament. According to Brad M. Paraszczak ’11, a Canaday IM representative and leader of the protest effort, “the last-minute change to the tennis competition and unfair multiplier that puts bigger dorms at a disadvantage” has resulted in “mortal combat” with rival Apley Hall. According to the Frosh IM Web site...
...there that I don't know about, it's still the world's premier venue for Asian teenagers playing video-game theme songs on two electric guitars at the same time. But since it launched in December 2005, YouTube has been largely stripped of the kind of longer-format, commercially produced content that could get you through a solitary evening at home, as opposed to a furtive interlude between spreadsheets. It's becoming what it was always meant to be: a vast galaxy of bizarre amateur snippets. It's like those restaurants that serve only tapas: there...
...Pieter-Dirk Uys, this statement is hauntingly literal. His most recent one-man production, “Elections and Erections,” currently being performed at the Zero Arrow Theatre, showcases the wry satire and verbal wit that has defined his career. The performance’s unique format, drawing upon drag and cabaret influences, provides a vehicle for the strong political dissent for which many South Africans have been killed.Uys began writing plays criticizing Apartheid while attending college in Cape Town in the 1960s. As a gay man living under a government that criminalized homosexuality, estranged from...
...These earlier works portrayed intergenerational conflict between Americanized children and their first generation parents, who, while desirous of the educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise the collection, she turns her anthropological eye on our own era of increased complexity and globalization, and suggests that the double consciousness she identified in her earlier works might actually be treble.This more complex worldview is evident from the first page...