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...from a tradition of theater and live TV. We were respectful of craft and focused on digging into the characters we were going to play. Both of us were fundamentally American actors, with the qualities and virtues that characterize American actors: irreverence, playing on the other's flaws for fun, one-upmanship - but always with an underlying affection. Those were also at the core of our relationship off the screen...
...being cheap and green, chefs are big on pickling because it just tastes good. The perfect pickle will have just enough acidity cut a dish's richness, and just the right amount of sweetness and spiciness to complement it. What's more, creating the perfect pickle is half the fun. Says Arrows restaurant's Frasier, "Even with the humble cucumber, the sky's the limit for creativity." Pickling is "so easy," he says, everyone should try it at least once...
...Spore has an educational side as well. Indeed, it is a biology lesson in disguise. After viewing the launch video at www.spore.com, Professor of Biological Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham said, “It looks like a wonderful way to view evolutionary theory through fun, and it might make people realize that human beings are just another species.” Given the time, Wrangham said he too would play the game...
...about it, advising career fair attendees to “get contact info and e-mail one on one.” Maintaining a surprisingly sunny outlook, Rossen D. Kralev ’09 says, “Hedge fund people are a lot of fun.” (We’re guessing that depends on your definition of fun.) And for the attendees who were actually worried about, you know, getting a job, OCS had a remedy: the fair featured the appropriately-named Relaxation Station, which featured a fishing booth and the promise of a slinky...
...That was brought home to me at a World Economic Forum conference in China last weekend, when I found myself (these things happen) at dinner with three Swedish entrepreneurs. They were, as you would expect, fun, clever, technologically up to the minute. And I thought: What do Sweden and China have in common? Just this, perhaps: one already rich, one rapidly becoming richer, neither nation is in thrall to American verities on the ways in which societies should be organized...