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George W. Bush is worth more than Brad Pitt. Well, at least on Trendio com a site where you can speculate on the news. Investors start with $10,000 in play money, which they can plow into some 200 terms, like Michael Jackson, gunman and Dick Cheney. Trading prices of the terms fluctuate according to how often they appear in stories from 3,000 media sources--so the value of Brad Pitt spiked on news of his daughter's birth. But if you can't make real money, what's the point? "Media consumers don't give much thought...
...encountered King Lear at 2:30 in the morning, he knows that something is very wrong. “The text doesn’t speak to them,” he laments. And I, for one, agree. Harvard students, especially humanities concentrators, face monstrous reading loads. Expected to plow through 350 pages each week, students in the most demanding courses are faced with two alternatives—and neither, let me warn you, is pretty. The first option is superficial reading, a half-hearted skim that introduced our poor friend to the beauties of Shakespeare. Passive reading allows students...
...States. At home, he has done his best to expand his revolution, most recently seizing oil fields from two multinational companies that refused to sign joint ventures with his government. But judging by the protests in Caracas this week against rampant crime and police corruption, Chavez may want to plow more money into basic necessities like law and order if he wants to keep his revolution alive...
Some places the border is a muddy river, too thin to plow, too thick to drink. Other places it's just a line in the sand. Over the years mapmakers redrew it, wars moved it, nature yanked it all around as the course of the Rio Grande shifted. But what would it take to make it disappear altogether...
...less appealing ‘microcook,’ which saw a surge of popularity in the late 1970s but has, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), since only resurfaced in magazines such as Midwest Living. And this is all terribly recent when compared with ‘plow,’ which after 300 years in noun-land seems to have made the jump some time the mid 15th century.The interesting question to consider, and where the moral of this story lies (for anyone worth his salt at columning must always be working towards a moral...