Word: mads
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...Pagan is low season for good reason. The relentless sun bakes its temple-strewn plain into a shimmering illusion of a chess game?if chess had 2,217 pieces, rather than 34. At midday even mad dogs take refuge, though not straw-hatted tourists on five-day whirlwind tours of Burma shuttling through their checklists of temples in air-conditioned comfort. The heat has its benefits, however. Summer is the time of flowers: thick bougainvillaea blooms in shockingly bright pink, jacarandas litter the paths with purple petals, and flame trees force starbursts of red against whitewashed temple walls...
...Mad scientists, preoccupied philosophers and cerebral academics have never been particularly well known for their social skills or for their organizational habits, but five of them will try their hand at both when they assume the role of the Allston Burr senior tutor in September...
...recipe is simple: put a woman in a room with a psycho, and let us watch. If the woman has an ailing daughter for the baddies to terrorize, good. If the man she loves has a dark past and maybe a homicidal kink, better. If she must confront two mad-genius kids, best. Just put our heroine in dire peril before she emerges victorious. It's a lesson in female resiliency. Also, these days, big box office...
These antics would not seem to recommend Cuban as a boss or business partner. But people who work with him seem mostly bemused by Mad Mark. He doesn't keep office hours. He constantly fires off ideas and instructions by e-mail--one passing along a fan's complaint about the hot dogs at Mavs games, the next negotiating an expansion of HDNet. Says Terdema Ussery, CEO of the Mavericks and HDNet: "When he first came, Mark used to say people have to decide if they can stay on this train because it moves very fast." Phil Garvin...
...want to make a Law School in which we can discuss hard issues, in the classroom and out of the classroom, so that people end up learning from the discussion rather than just getting mad,” Rakoff said...