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...pacing is flawless, and the trash level is just right. And One Fifth Avenue has other virtues that are harder to explain. It has an actual Weltanschauung--it gets at the deep truth of shallow people. Women control men with sex. Men control women with money. With rare exceptions, marriage is a Punch-and-Judy slugfest that ends with either divorce or one party's total subjugation. Power and pleasure are the only things that are real, and they endlessly swap places as means and end. Everybody in One Fifth Avenue, good and bad, is bound by these rules...
...whether it will be figured out in time for funding next year is the question,” Ruff said. Some funding will definitely be available for child care and for time off, Ruff said, but at this point, she does not know the official level of funding to be expected. PUSH OUT, HEAD FIRST Some changes have already found their way out of the womb. The G-clock policy—which extends key graduate school deadlines by a year for new parents—is now official, Ruff said. “Now it’s clearer...
...know that for certain, of course, but I can’t see how anyone with any true emotion or sensitivity could produce the 14 pieces collected in “The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom.” He attacks his subject with precisely the level of extreme rationality that he professes to value, and the resulting analyses are shocking both for their lucidity and their ruthlessness.The roughly 200-page volume contains pieces the Englishman published in American and British periodicals between September 18, 2001 and September 11, 2007, arranged in chronological order, and they...
...doubt left in his mind after witnessing the fine showing the two sophomores posted, confirming his suspicions that Iannuzzi and Lorditch could be very prominent players as league play begins Saturday. “To see those guys be able to play poised, mature football at a high level really adds a lot to the expectations and the capabilities of our offense,” Murphy said. “We’re confident in them, they’re confident in themselves, and therefore we can just go out and run our offense.” Harvard...
...know how [the coach] would react to having a disabled swimmer on the team.”Agoglia described Kolbe’s training regimen—which involves resistance training and cardio work—as not too far off from that of an able-bodied, high level swimmer. Around the time of her accident, “I thought I was going to be a doctor, I had no aspirations of attending Harvard,” Kolbe said. But then she discovered she didn’t really “love blood or hospitals...