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...author of the 1856 best seller Things Not Generally Known, and Ruth Horowitz, the rebus-solving legend who dominated 20 straight episodes of Concentration in 1966. And of course Jennings gives us all the nerd-on-nerd action from his Jeopardy! stint, which he graciously chalks up to luck and good buzzer technique...
There are lots of reasons to be moral: avoiding prison, hell, and appearances on Gawker.com are just a few. But you’re in luck, oh principle–perplexed undergrad, for Harvard has bestowed its most righteous of all Cores, Moral Reasoning, upon thee. Unfortunately, it’s often righteously boring.In theory, Moral Reasoning courses will help you learn to deal with tough ethical questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more...
...especially in show biz, bad luck often first appears wearing a smiley face. For what neither Reeves nor anyone else at the time could see was how television was beginning to reorder America's fantasy life. Yes, the movies had already lost about one-third of their audience to the new medium, but that had to be, in Hollywood's arrogant opinion, a temporary thing. How could a little box, projecting flickering black-and-white images in the corner of the rumpus room, replace the romance of movies on a big screen? It seems likely that Reeves thought he could...
...history has been a kinder judge of Bush's presidency. Although many analysts had predicted that terrorists would strike again on U.S. soil within five years, there was no sequel to 9/11 on Bush's watch. It was just his bad luck that success in counterterrorism grabbed few headlines, since plots stifled at conception are nonevents in news terms. Moreover, the key point of his national-security strategy turned out to be correct. It was just that pre-emption had been used against Iraq when it should have been saved for Iran...
California's legislators rolled up their sleeves last week and got started on an answer, passing the most important legislation of the year, possibly of the decade: the California Global Warming Solutions Act. With any luck, its cooling effects will be felt for the rest of the century--and beyond...