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...studied in advance, we wouldn’t get enough sleep. Many of us have poured our wallets and our hearts into the campaigns,” Milder said. “From an emotional standpoint, we would not be in the best condition to take a test mere hours after a favored candidate lost...
...without listening very carefully, you can hear its echo throughout Friday Night Lights: In Odessa, football is a way of life. And, as is quickly shown, the only way of life for residents of this small Texas town, where state champions become legends and those who fall short become mere pariahs rejected even within their own families. Though American society worships successful professional athletes, the cult following earned by 17-year old high school seniors is for the most part less widespread. Director and co-writer Peter Berg rightly devotes more time to the Panthers’ trials in their...
...fairness, if the University still owns the stock, the estimated value of the investment in PetroChina is a mere 0.02 percent of Harvard’s endowment and a fraction of that company’s public holdings. Yet the relative amount of money does not matter in this case: Any amount of money, any fraction of a dollar that Harvard invests in a company with such a disregard for the ethical implications of its activities is too much...
...child watches more than four hours of television per day. They, in turn, see an estimated 20,000 commercials every year and are thus exposed to the limitless advertising for unhealthy foods, alcohol, etc. Children are particularly vulnerable: They don’t realize that they’re mere targets of their programs’ corporate sponsors...
PRICES There's a perception among European consumers that the new currency has driven up prices. The official statistics say otherwise: that the euro has pushed up consumer prices a mere .12% to .29%. But while the prices of many big-ticket consumer durables, such as automobiles and refrigerators, remained stable or fell, the cost soared for many everyday services--hairdressers, cafs, parking meters. "They may not amount to a large part of people's budgets, but they are very visible," says Jim Murray of BEUC, a Brussels-based consumer group...