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...Black Friday. With the holiday season upon us, there’s also plenty of holiday cheer to be found in bookstores. “Hannukah Haiku,” by Harriet Ziefert with Karla Gudeon’s pics Jewish holidays, Japanese poetry, and fly illustrations. A picture??s worth a thousand words. That’s 10 times the words in this whole book. The length is perfect for tired parents who need short bedtime stories. Two cultures for the price of one. A great deal! Thank the giving author. “Holiday Princess...
...Reissue, repackage, repackage.” So sang Morrissey on the greatest-hits-mocking “Paint a Vulgar Picture?? from The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album, “Strangeways, Here We Come.” Despite these righteous words, the band—who split in 1987—are now releasing their eighth compilation album, “The Sound of the Smiths.” The two disc release includes every one of the classics that have already been included on their myriad greatest hits collections, but it also throws...
...inconvenience it entails, over 750 colleges and universities nationwide have moved to eliminate standardized test scores from consideration in their admission processes. For schools that have sufficient monetary resources and staff support to enable such an endeavor, evaluating each applicant on the basis of the “big picture??—without heavy consideration of standardized testing—is indeed ideal. In a perfect world, all schools would ignore standardized test scores and evaluate each applicant contextually, taking into account their educational history, socioeconomic background, and personal achievements. But with the exception...
...anything is sacred. Must I now be nostalgic of not only sandlot baseball games, but also “old” technologies made irrelevant by the ruthless advance of digital innovation? Maybe Polaroid figures you can’t “shake it like a Polaroid picture?? because of your carpal-tunnel from “Guitar Hero.” The magic is gone—at least for our generation.We shouldn’t stay true to the real thing, in the arts and otherwise, simply because of nostalgia, but because there is something...
...Retired Athletes found that 91.7 percent of repeat injuries came within ten days of the first injury, and 75 percent came within seven days. Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, the research director for the Center, states, “Some say we’re trying to paint this ugly picture??My goal is to help improve the game to make it a more safe game, regardless of what level...