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Freshman Seminar 44i. “The Golden Age of Piracy...
...registrar, seemingly just back from Johnny Depp’s new “Pirates of the Caribbean,” is now offering a new course, “The Golden Age of Piracy,” as a freshman seminar. Pirates take “center stage” and freshmen will get to learn about globalization from the 16th to 18th centuries. Lecturer Mark G. Hanna is no Kiera Knightly, so do try to concentrate, freshmen...
...catastrophe: we end up selecting students through failure, but we don't dare to select them before they enter - that's considered to be antidemocratic. Was it any different when you were a student here in 1968? In 1968 I was 19 years old, and I detested those bourgeois, golden youths breaking their toys, but I just got[an error occurred while processing this directive] on with it. In 1970, I did a masters paper on the wines of the Jura, and I was very young when I finished my Ph.D. the next year, and I thought...
...episodes. (His character, boss Michael Scott, is referenced, though; an accountant catches him having expensed a J. Crew receipt as "lunch.") Only a few network sites re-create the joyful weirdness of the best amateur viral video; Comedy Central's MotherLoad site, for instance, has Golden Age, a hilarious True Hollywood Story parody about the tragic lives of fictitious celebrity cartoon characters. Other sites are filled with extras that are geekily appealing (Sci Fi Network's site reveals how prop masters create futuristic beverages for Battlestar Galactica) or superfluous. (Does anyone really need to delve deeper into My Super Sweet...
...clad corridors by now seem timeless, like pre-Cambrian mountains bolted to the landscape. So it's hard to believe that America's freeway system turns 50 this summer - a chronological blip on the tectonic plates too slight for a spectrometer, but in the life of our republic, a golden anniversary...