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...advanced to Bright Hockey Center, a stone’s throw away, where the same two teams were locked in a tight 3-3 contest with just over ten minutes left in regulation, according to the scoreboard as we walked in. Now this is a very important live sports lesson: only visit the restrooms between innings, halves, periods, or sets. You might miss something. Such was my fate as I found bladder relief before my seat; from the sound of the band striking up the fight song as I stood stationed at the urinal I knew the Crimson had potted...
...comment by Horie, "What I care about most is the publicity the company gets," held to be true. The benefit everyone gains from the Livedoor shock is the awareness that the public needs to have a higher level of financial literacy. Livedoor shareholders have learned a costly yet important lesson: it's always good to know exactly what you're paying for. Jo Matsumoto Fujisawa, Japan...
...comment by Horie, "What I care about most is the publicity the company gets," held to be true. The benefit everyone gains from the Livedoor shock is the awareness that the public needs to have a higher level of financial literacy. Livedoor shareholders have learned a costly yet important lesson: it's always good to know exactly what you're paying for. Jo Matsumoto Fujisawa, Japan Cowboys in Love The critical acclaim received by the movie Brokeback Mountain is well deserved [Jan. 30]. It takes a courageous filmmaker to tackle the subject of a love affair between two men. Like...
...categorically opposed to any writing that includes a hierarchy of belligerence peaking at “Tucker Max Drunk,” you can’t deny that Max displays an instinctive knack for calling out wanksters of all kinds. But a closer look will reveal a deeper lesson. The stories are ancillary to Tucker Max himself, the man who stands up and acts where the rest of us sit and dream or masturbate. In the face of everything around him—social norms, ugly girls, stupid people, law firms, hotel employees, self-righteous d-bags, the very...
Here’s the lesson: Harvard is so much more amazing when you imagine that you’re Luke Skywalker or Michael Corleone. It’s easy for me to do, because my relatives are always telling me how important it is that I keep the family’s Harvard tradition alive, but everyone...