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...Guiness record for shaking hands and killing bears—all while in office. When he invited foreign emissaries for weekend jaunts, he advised them to wear clothes they didn’t care about, since they were sure to get sloppy with mud. A favorite pastime was to hack at Gen. Wood with a large wooden stick, then allow Wood to thrash him in return. “They beat each other like carpets,” Morris writes. Roosevelt was a perennial child, a condition that in its best moments meant a great lust for anything new, active...
...overall cool factor. The downer this time is that, unlike thrilling chart-toppers like “Firestarter” and “Setting Sun,” the music in the limelight is barely deserving of notice. Most popular are formulaic, cheap-rush trance that any talentless hack with a computer can cough out, and its dry counterpart “progressive” house, the style championed by purists like John Digweed...
...Chang excused himself by claiming Li's wife never requested help. (In fact she had asked him twice.) Can any university become great if its leader is small? In another outrage, the head of Hong Kong's oldest university resigned in disgrace last year after kowtowing to a political hack from the Chief Executive's office to silence a poll-taking professor. These leaders have sent a clear message to the academic community: "Don't make waves." But without intellectual integrity, can there be excellence? Without excellence these institutions are a burden, not an asset, to Hong Kong...
...about three feet apart, are two public drinking fountains, and I notice that the one boldly marked 'For Colored' is sitting squarely in the shadow cast by the justice symbol on the courthouse fa*ade - to be entered later, of course, in my writer's notebook, under 'Imagery, sociochiaroscurian, hack...
...married. Write on both sides of the page—single bluebook finals look like less work to grade and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack...