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...pointed out that this wasn’t exactly the best publicity that MIT would want.” MIT junior Lawrence F. Bronk, one of SEX-C’s creators, told MIT’s student newspaper that the proposal began as “a joke,” but now serves as a lesson of what can happen when people don’t participate in their residential affairs. The meeting last spring where SEX-C was first proposed was attended by only 29 of Simmons’ 350 residents, and many of those who attended...
Which is not to say 30 Rock is cynical. But where Studio 60 reveres television, 30 Rock loves TV, and that makes the difference. At one point in Studio 60, the show's director cracks a joke that a stressed-out Danny fails to appreciate. Says the director: "It's a comedy show, dude." Good thing somebody remembers that...
...Dell are in his world, and they have well-established sales networks, a full range of products and famous brand names, especially in the U.S. "We joke, 'Lenovo who?' The challenge is that Lenovo doesn't have a brand name in the U.S.," says Samir Bhavnani, director of research at tech-information provider Current Analysis in San Diego. Even worse, Lenovo is being buffeted by the some- times tense relations between the West and China. In May the U.S. State Department said 16,000 PCs it had purchased from Lenovo wouldn't be used for classified work after a Congressman...
Those who took AP Economics in high school call Ec10 a joke, but for those new to the field, it’s just the right pace of weekly problem sets and readings. The supplemental readings book—with articles from The Economist and other periodicals—serves as a reminder that what you learn in class actually has some grounding in the real world. And you won’t have to worry much about your grade; Ec10 offers a “Unit Test” program to take practice exams for bonus points. Combine that...
...Democrats ruled Texas at the time, so much so that Republicans, the joke went, met in a phone booth. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock was the king of the corner table, the master of legislative budget matters. One night Bullock went on a roach-shooting rampage in the Quorum Club basement. By the next night, everyone had holstered their sidearms and recovered from their hangovers. And so it went night after night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school...