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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...cleverly can work. Demand for many of the 9 million tickets that London organizers plan to sell will be fierce. For some events, though - think handball - organizers know they may have to coax fans along. But that doesn't mean it can't be done. Few Britons had ever heard of ski cross before the Vancouver Games, but the event, which pits four skiers simultaneously against one another over an undulating course, drew millions of television viewers. London organizers have been busy drawing up marketing plans to help push the lower-profile events. Vancouver may have given them some ideas...
...tendency to liken one’s school to Hogwarts. As an Admissions Office tour guide, I try to keep the Hogwarts references to a minimum. But from time to time, I, too, slip in one too many Harry Potter references, and I’ve heard many of my fellow guides do the same. Are we trying to sell a Hogwarts resemblance when we should be selling the Harvard reality? I don’t believe so. I suspect that we are so oft inclined to make these Hogwarts analogies while...
...actually work against the purpose of underlining the differences of a college that would make a prospective student decide upon that institution over another. For example, when the infamous “That’s Why I Chose Yale...” video was released, I heard many Harvard students mention how very similar Harvard and Yale are—the video revealed to them a likeness between the two colleges they had not thought of before...
...Drivers can change lanes having no idea that a racing bike is about to appear - and tragedy can easily strike. At first, the buzzing of an approaching high-speed motorcycle sounds like a gnat near your ear, then it suddenly becomes loud and threatening. Segui remembers a woman who heard that noise and jerked her steering wheel in the opposite direction, jumping a curb and crashing...
...Democrats try to salvage health care reform, there is one man who above all others will help determine its fate, and he is not Barack Obama or Harry Reid or even a member of Congress. In fact, odds are you've never heard of Alan Frumin, the Senate parliamentarian. But when it comes to the complex budgetary procedure known as reconciliation, the filibuster-proof process which Democrats hope to use to make certain fixes to the Senate bill, Frumin is "the defense counsel, he's the prosecution, he's the judge, he's the jury and he's the hangman...