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...record is a tribute to Pettit’s durability. He has missed only two games (the Princeton-Yale road trip as a freshman) over four years. His teammates, though, joke that he has the “most games played but least amount of preseason runs” because of conditioning sessions he’s missed due to injury...
...lengthy argument about the essence of art. The name is a tribute to the archduke whose assassination triggered World War I, and early gigs were Andy Warhol--style happenings at a Glasgow warehouse during which audience members were provided with air rifles and rocking horses as a Dadaist joke...
...three Americans are not especially likable--it's hard to tell their principles from mercenariness--but that's the point. The old joke about democracy is that it's the worst system in the world, except for all the other ones. Spinning's consultants are the biggest heels in this story, except for their opponents. (Goldblum, who comes off creepy even in movies in which he's the hero, is particularly well cast.) Somehow they make us cheer for them to secure the re-election of the out-of-touch head of a corrupt regime through fearmongering and manipulation...
...What I think is scary about this book is that you don’t know where truth stops and the joke begins,” Thurston says...
Sophomore Rob Spinella, who came up with the idea for the Google-Bomb, said he did not think the plan was realistic, calling it “sort of a joke...