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...Crew got here traces to Drexler's beloved p.a. system, a technology of choice for the hyper-communicative 62-year-old, who wears jeans and an untucked dress shirt to work and uses phrases like "You da man." Drexler, a Bronx Science grad who got an M.B.A., then followed his father, a button buyer, into the clothing business, is always in motion--hence the p.a. system he uses like a high school principal to bark out questions (Who shops online?) and commands (Don't forget to turn off the conference-room lights). On one of his first days, Drexler...
...primed for narcissism. (How many Harvard students does it take to screw in a light bulb? One. He holds the light bulb and the world revolves around him.) We wrote admissions essays about how special we are and were admitted because someone believed them. Harvard, with its culture of hyper-achievement, is the perfect breeding ground for self-obsession and all its perils. We must bear not just our own narcissism but also the disappointment of being standouts for our entire lives only to arrive at college and become merely average...
Sure, I experienced the frustrations of libraries that closed at 4 p.m. on Saturday, and short shopping hours on Sunday, but the beauty of living in Oxford was that life moved at a slower, saner pace than my hyper-scheduled Harvard existence. Rather than going-going-going all the time, I was sometimes forced to pause and consider why I was writing my dissertation, what I really wanted to be learning, and how I wanted to move forward after graduate school...
...remember from geography lessons, rubber is big in Malaysia. But there's a better way to appreciate it besides attending museums and tree-tapping demonstrations, and that's the Malaysian Grand Prix. Scheduled for April 8 at Kuala Lumpur's hyper-modern Sepang Circuit, the tire-scorching event is the second competition in this year's World Formula One Championship, which makes it all the more intriguing. If the much-vaunted first race in Melbourne on March 18 is where the kinks are discovered, then it's in the second race that the real drama begins to unfold. Will world...
...young political cartoonist, played by Jake Gyllenhaal. The true story of the Zodiac Killer is a frightening and horrible one, but the film is neither a conventional horror movie nor a carefully-crafted psychological thriller. Fincher’s goal, rather, is to chill the viewer with an almost hyper-real style of storytelling. Instead of using ominous music and loud noises to frighten the audience, victims are graphically killed with famous 60’s guitar rock playing in the background. Their own horror is not melodramatic, but written in the confusion and shock across their faces. The killing...