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This year’s annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals production is “Fable Attraction,” which opens on February 15th at the New College Theatre. The play features all the best elements of theatre: mythical creatures, a magical world, and cross-dressing undergrads. The Roving Reporter put on his best skirt and went to go find out more.David J. Andersson ’09RR: Who do you play in “Fable Attraction”?DA: I play the sexy unicorn. Her name is Peggy Seuss, but she’s not a Pegasus...
...magic phrase that brings luster to any career, sells tickets at the box office, moves millions of dvds. It's the gold standard for the film industry, pop culture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Get one, and when you die, the headline on your obit will proclaim oscar winner...
...breed that has ranked among the top 10 most popular dogs in the U.S. for nearly a century? The saluki was elegant and urbane; the Plott hound tough and tireless. Dogs, however, are judged not against one another but against perfection, and here, in all its modesty, was magic: Uno became the first beagle to win the hound group since...
...Leaky BucketThere's no magic formula for what makes a good teacher, but there is general agreement on some of the prerequisites. One is an unshakable belief in children's capacity to learn. "Anyone without this has no business in the classroom," says Margaret Gayle, an expert on gifted education at Duke University, who has trained thousands of teachers in North Carolina. Another requirement, especially in the upper grades, is a deep knowledge of one's subject. According to research on teacher efficacy by statistician William Sanders, the higher the grade, the more closely student achievement correlates to a teacher...
...Let’s break that number down: a magic majority of 2,025 means that there are 4,049 total votes, 3,253 of which are “delegates”—awarded by popular voting—and 796 of which are “superdelegates.” In most elections since 1972, the year that the Democratic nominating process began to be democratized, one candidate dominated the caucuses and primaries so much that superdelegates were irrelevant; a candidate could collect 2,025 votes at the convention just from delegates...