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Should I name the call girl Candy? That works. No, wait. The protagonist is an alcoholic! I should name her Brandy. And I should change Richard Cory’s name??yes, that Richard Cory—to Richard...
...mother only practiced the rhythms of her tongue every two or three years on family visits. When I decided that I, too, wanted in, I was long past the age to master the delicate accents, and I deserted the whim. It was simpler to skip over my middle name??Hoang-Ngoc, an unpronounceable compound word that means “yellow jade”—and abbreviate...
When the Harvard Management Company (HMC), founded in 1974 to oversee Harvard’s now-$22.6 billion endowment, created a venture-capital subsidiary, it called the group Aeneas. Walter M. Cabot ’55, the company’s first president and deputy treasurer, bestowed the name??and today he says the Trojan hero still captures his idea of how an investment group should operate...
...easiest way to lose a few hours online is by playing mind numbingly stupid flash games, a great source of which is www.addictinggames.com (don’t mind the name??they’re kidding, I promise). You can’t go wrong (or right…) with any of the hundred or so options they present. Some of the more interesting include “Kitten Cannon” (kittencannon.html at the above address), where you shoot a kitten out of a cannon at trampolines, spikes, and kitten-eating plants, and “The Helicopter...
...great coming back to Dudley,” she says, “because they’re so tiny and incredibly helpful. I think Tom Dingman knows my father’s middle name??it’s unbelievable how much he knows about everyone and he does a really good job of providing different levels of social interaction within the house...