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...well-paid Packers (representing a franchise worth hundreds of millions) have some near-mystical connection with pro-football's prehistoric days, when, if the players were lucky, they might get fifty or a hundred bucks in return for getting their brains beaten out on Sunday afternoons. To put this matter simply, I can imagine the soulful, sublime and gun-slinging Brett Favre playing for the Duluth Bulldogs...
...Authored by Harvard Business School professor Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn ’99, a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia, the report used a combination of real-life and laboratory data to conclude that people who give money to others—no matter how little—are happier than people who do not. “We were interested in studying happiness by seeing people’s actions rather than their circumstances,” Dunn said. “Instead of focusing on how much money they make, we looked...
...Honestly, nobody knows what’s going to happen,” he said. “No matter how many mathematical models one might use, there’s just too much uncertainty...
...went 2-2, the team learned that it can control its own fate: the energy issue is only an energy problem when Harvard doesn’t have enough.“The theme on this trip is that the team with the most energy and hunger wins, no matter what the score, no matter who the opponent,” assistant coach Andrew Rueb ’95 said. “We’ve got to make sure we’re the ones bringing the fire.”The trip’s high point...
...this helps to explain why he was named today as the 2008 winner of the Pritzker Prize, which at this point is something like the knighthood of architecture. It was always only a matter of time before the Pritzker Foundation said "Arise, Sir Jean" to Nouvel, 62, who for decades has been one of the most closely followed architects in the world. Born in Fumel, a town in southwestern France, to parents who were both schoolteachers, he was already famous within the profession by 1981, when he was just 35, which is youthful in architect years...