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...surprising, then, that Paulistas all have traffic stories to tell. These range from the depressingly familiar - the time it took them two hours to move one city block - to the admiringly audacious - one oft-repeated tale involves a guy throwing a cell phone in the open car window of a girl he fancied, and then calling her to ask for a date. Everyone knows someone who sat so long without moving they gave up and parked their car to wait it out at the nearest coffee shop. And with a construction boom under way, some people are now complaining...
...oft-controversial Government professor and author of the book “Manliness” is hosting, of all things, a feminism conference...
...Mike Mills’ musicianship. As R.E.M.’s trusty bassist, Mills has been criminally overlooked for decades. Household name Michael Stipe has always been known as a bit of an enigma, Peter Buck has his signature ringing guitar, and Bill Berry’s got his oft-lamented departure from R.E.M. to become a farmer. But Mills is R.E.M.’s quiet hero. His killer basslines made “Murmur” a masterpiece; his high-pitched vocal harmonies—the perfect counterpart to Stipe’s low mumble—propelled...
...relaxing aspects of the pong. “The rules are simple—there isn’t much to learn to get in the game.” But not all ping pongers were as willing to give up their street cred, defending the difficulty of their oft-belittled sport. “You have to be reactive and on your toes. It requires a lot more athleticism and skill than most players initially think,” says co-President of the Harvard Table Tennis Club Tim L. Kovachy ’09. Ping pong...
...create a character who is deeply flawed yet funny, complicated, and utterly human.”It is exactly that last part—“funny, complicated, and utterly human”—that equally speaks to the real appeal of Duchovny’s oft-soused scribe as it does to Parker’s pot-dealing mother of two. Fundamentally, these series are clever dramatizations of what is really the commonest of phenomena, one dignified by the greatest of American playwrights (cf. Willy Loman) and immortalized by the deftest of contemporary lyricists (cf. Rick...