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...university will grind to a halt due to an outbreak of Mad Squash Disease...
...kettle numbers used in the article. “I have no idea where they got those statistics,” Wissner-Gross said to the information technology Web site. “For some reason, in their story on the study, the Times had an axe to grind with Google.”He denied ever singling the company out in his study on the environmental impact of computing, which will be published by the U.S. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.“Our work has nothing to do with Google. Our focus was exclusively...
...points in the first half.“We got a big confidence boost from the win,” Harvard captain Andrew Pusar said. “We’re on an emotional high from the game at BC, so that was tough, but our ability to grind out a win when we’re not playing our best is a big deal. It shows we’ve improved on the road.”Harvard was not playing in its usual form in the first half. While it gave up only 17 turnovers...
...what Garbo and Bettie Page both had was It - a radiance, a mystery of personality, that transcends technique and passeth understanding. Bettie had a message that defined her medium, and a magic that defied it. The dance films she did may have been cheesy documents of bump-and-grind; the bondage films, creepy if dainty invocations of sadomasochism. But what everyone remembers about Bettie, aside from her trademark bangs, is her smile. Guileless and guiltless, it conveyed an Edenic sensuality. To her fans and her official detractors, who might have agreed that sex was dirty, Bettie's giddy energy said...
...Some people believe they are loved for what they are; others think they are accepted for what they do. Nixon, the classic grind, was in the second category, and that's part of the continuing fascination with him. His National Security Advisor, then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, said of Nixon: "Can you imagine what this man would have been had somebody loved him?" Who knows whether he was loved? The important thing is that he thought he wasn't. He turned his hurt into pugnacity and focused his considerable intelligence on getting back at the swells, the Eastern establishment...