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...format stripped the sport of some of its pedigree, and an announcer bellowed long calls reminiscent of televised Mexican soccer matches and played clips of Montell Jordan’s “This Is How We Do It” between sets. Fan participation is encouraged, and spectators whooped, clapped, and knocked noisemakers together before serves and between points...
Economic summit meetings are always part consultation and part ceremony but, all too often, mostly ceremony. Every year the venue changes, but the format is the same. The heads of the world's leading industrial democracies (the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Canada), joined by representatives of the European Community, gather somewhere pleasant for two to three days of talks in the name of greater economic cooperation. They meet often and dine well in private, with time out for photo opportunities. A communiqu laden with truisms is released. Then the luminaries disperse to follow whatever divergent policies they...
Apart from disagreement on distribution requirements, the first draft of the report and later revisions also reflected the committee’s lack of consensus on what the format of Harvard College Courses should...
...separate question. There was a cartoon, I think in the New Yorker magazine, of two young computer geeks, and one was holding a newspaper, and he turned to the other and said, "Look at this new invention. Somebody has downloaded the whole page into a user-friendly format." It's a wonderful cartoon...
...language but also with everything else we do. The books you own, the way you decorate your house, whether you wear a tie or not are all signs of something else," he explains. "That's semiotics in a nutshell." His earlier novels neatly adapt this philosophy to the thriller format - Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return, to return to childhood or your...