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...formula for writing a successful book about the American Revolution is no mystery. Choose a Founding Father--Washington, Hamilton, Adams--venerate him for a few hundred pages, and in no time you're on the best-seller list. O.K., it's not that simple, but you get the picture. Patriotic content equals readership appeal...
Luckily for you, with my advice you’ll soon turn your nights of playing Xbox by yourself into nights of playing Xbox with a complaining girl at your side. There are 6,000 undergraduates here at Harvard, and by using a complex formula, I’ve calculated that there are about 3,000 young women at the College. There is a girl out there for you, and I will help you get her. But why should you listen to what I, a lowly sophomore, have to say? Because I’ve made every possible mistake with...
...situation was far from unusual. For much of the 20th century, administrators used the “Graustein formula,” a complicated series of charts, to determine when Harvard departments could make permanent appointments. If a junior faculty member’s term was going to end in a year when the formula didn’t allow a permanent appointment to be made in his field, he was out of luck...
...cure-all for tired concepts. In this case, “the video that’s just a band performing alternating with shots of them looking all pensive and anguished…in SPACE!” is not a significant improvement on the standard formula for sensitive rockers. Add in a poorly-CGI-ed extraterrestrial landscape, a barrage of stock footage of birds, and WWII bombers, and the result is nothing more than a confusing mess of slow-motion outer-space angst. —Elisabeth J. Bloomberg
...successful operation needs money, a meticulous plan and reliable people. The operatives working in China are critical. Peters and Kim Sang Hun prefer to depend on fellow Christian activists but will work with trustworthy brokers. There's no magic formula for knowing how many people or how much money is needed. Nor can the route be specified in advance, although right now there are two hot roads out of China--one through Mongolia, another through Laos...