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Harvard used to have a sports requirement in freshman year. This was sort of a good idea, although most students, like me, thought it was a bore and a bother. The problem was that these classes aimed to teach sports--i.e., games--to people who would never play them again...
...voluntarily" cutting its steel imports by 70 percent, leading even Commerce Secretary William M. Daley to recognize that "There is a legitimate concern about taking Russia to its knees." Blocking imports from a country already on the brink of financial and political disaster simply can't be a good idea. The result is a classic example of the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. The IMF is currently loaning Russia billions of taxpayer dollars, but how much of that money could be saved if we simply allowed U.S. consumers to buy Russian steel? Although the bill...
...Harvard used to have a sports requirement in freshman year. This was sort of a good idea, although most students, like me, thought it was a bore and a bother. The problem was that these classes aimed to teach sports--i.e., games--to people who would never play them again...
Thibodeaux is what you'd call a computer hobbyist, a techno-geek of the highest order--not like the average consumer. There are a lot more of those: people who like the idea of a home computer network but wouldn't want to spend all their spare time (or even one Saturday) reading technical manuals, shopping for parts, reconfiguring hard drives and rewiring the house. If you wanted to network a few PCs a few months ago, you really had to be a Todd Thibodeaux to pull it off--or spend thousands of dollars hiring professionals...
...poetry reading, Edwards explained that "Zalacain" is a Basque word that means" on the pasture," but has a connotation of "the idea of a nexus-the center of focus...