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These are bleak truths that Carrie Bradshaw could never grasp. Her life in Sex and the City is a fairy-tale fever dream of shopping and dating from which she will never awaken, no matter how many princes kiss her. She wouldn't last an hour at One Fifth Avenue. Bushnell knows this. She even slyly hints at it: Lola, the gold digger, "had watched every single episode of Sex and the City at least, as she claimed, 'a hundred times.'" Lola arrives in Manhattan expecting--nay, demanding--a West Village apartment and a Mr. Big. Suffice...
...lack of causality quite succinctly by saying that “we are not dealing in reasons because we are not dealing in reason.”Amis knows reason, and that is all. He may be able to recognize, where America cannot, that we have yet to fully grasp the significance of Islamism to the 21st century, but he is not so different from the Americans in not knowing how to stop it. While “The Second Plane” is a bracing and thought-provoking read, it is ultimately irritating in its unsubstantiated smugness. Being...
...somehow, someway, was the first to hit the ground running. I was also the first target. A Yale policeman with a big butt came on a beeline right for me. But you know what? I was so freaking ready. Quick jab to the right, spin move out of his grasp, and I was in open field. I sprinted as fast as I could, got between the players, and I was safe. I was moving. I was grooving. And, oh yeah, I was rushing. Principle 4: Have a super-sweet diss move. Last weekend, after Harvard’s come-from...
...other hand, says Peter Morici, a professor of international business at the University of Maryland, finance concentrators - that is, the students who are specially trained to grasp the models - are so steeped in the particulars that they don't always see the forest for the trees. They get the math, but they don't pay attention to systemic issues within the broader economy; it's a by-product of degree programs that encourage students to take a narrow focus too early on in their studies. "In medicine you become a doctor first, and then you become a specialist," Morici says...
Doubtlessly, a moratorium on private-school students would have a huge domino effect (property values, angry donors) that we can’t yet fully grasp. There are many reasons why Harvard most likely won’t heed my advice (and, probably, shouldn?...