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With old artifacts and a gargoyle adorning the walls, past and present merged yesterday as over 700 people crowded into the Cambridge Queen’s Head in Loker Commons for a grand opening ceremony featuring finger sandwiches, shuffleboard, and the cutting of a giant crimson ribbon...
...thank the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for much of this new shoeless security circus. With unseemly haste, the government created the TSA by nationalizing airport security after 9/11, as politicians tripped over each other in a mad dash to ‘do something!’ But this grand experiment in U.S.S.R.-style central planning has failed: The TSA has proved itself an incompetent, abusive, and unnecessary substitute for private airport security providers...
...first caught Oldboy at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Grand Prix du Jury, or second prize. (Only Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 finished higher, copping the Palme d'Or.) The Jury that year was headed by Quentin Tarantino, and at the closing night ceremony, when Tarantino read out the Old Boy award, he proclaimed that his panel was "delighted" with its choice...
...years later, he joined the team's support program for promising young drivers. But he's also ready to listen and learn. Hamilton has a rare "capacity to question himself - to analyze very clearly after a race," says Frédéric Vasseur, general manager at the ART Grand Prix team behind Hamilton's GP2 championship...
...Sports is like going to an AA meeting with an open bar.With no patch or 12-step program to cure me, I was left to try to reconcile my borderline religious sports zeal with the notion that a Harvard man should be passionate about something more significant in the grand scheme of things.And to tell you the truth, it wasn’t that hard.On a personal level, sports have provided stability in my life and have given me an outlet for dealing with frustration and stress in a healthy manner. Growing up, there was no better way to release...