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...QuickTime Player” is a ubiquitous piece of software. On Macs, it’s installed at birth alongside the operating system, and most Windows users find themselves downloading it at some point to watch captivating movie clips featuring “Star Wars Kid,” or whichever chubby dancing man happens to be in vogue this week. I’d like therefore to perform a public service and remind QuickTime users of a provision they agreed to when they accepted the license agreement the first time they ran the program: you should make certain, whatever...
...Jackson in 2000, when the accuser was 10 and suffering from what was diagnosed as incurable leukemia. Surgeons removed his left kidney and spleen and a 16-lb. tumor. He was given large doses of chemotherapy, which doctors said would either save his life or kill him. The kid deserved a break. When he asked to meet his hero, Michael Jackson, it was arranged...
...just love coaching a kid like Katie Murphy,” Delaney-Smith said. “[She] is the kind of player who brings all the intangibles to your program without every getting credit for them. The steals, the take the charges, the strip from behind, the pump the team up—she has done that all year...
...girl walks only in straight lines, talks like a lisping machine gun and has pigtails pulled so tight she looks as if she's going to explode. Another kid is a portly know-it-all with a sinus condition and a special trick of spelling his words silently in advance--by tracing them on the floor with his foot. Then there's the overachieving Asian girl who objects to being introduced as someone who speaks five languages. Actually, she says a bit resignedly, it's six. And, she wonders, do the notes about her also "say that I only sleep...
...applicants to Harvard Business School (HBS)—recently rejected for exploiting a loophole in the admissions website that allowed them to access their admissions’ decisions early—sound an awful lot like that little kid who sneaks into the kitchen just before dinner and gets his hand caught in the cookie jar. And just like that wayward child, the people rejected for their actions are protesting with every excuse in the book. But where we might be willing to forgive the child in his youth and ignorance, these excuses should not suffice...