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...True Oscar scholars - and admit it, people, there are millions of you, filling out your office-pool Oscar ballots, summoning your expertise on movies most of you haven?t seen - are as meticulous and obsessive as Talmudists or sabermetricians. You pore over past winners for clues to this year?s. You know that the trick is to find the leading indicators, the stats that transcend the conventional wisdom to become the actual, factual wisdom...
...coming days, all of Washington will pore over the budget to see what got whacked and what got more dough. Already Democrats are bashing Bush for eliminating a food assistance program for low-income seniors-though the Administration says it merely wants to move the Commodity Supplemental Food Program into the Food Stamps program. And some will question why there's $150 million in the budget to promote healthy marriages and fatherhood training. The partisan bickering is no different from any other traditional Washington spat-it's just that the stakes are a lot higher...
...nearly every page vaguely or explicitly reflects the construction of the page facing opposite. Imagining the amount effort put into this books visuals makes you wonder why it didn't take twenty years to finish. Black Hole is a tour de force of design as message. Semiotics students will pore over it for years to come, but casual readers will simply enjoy it for its dark beauty...
...education into the hinterland, where the schools reduced the curriculum to communist rote. Before he left, his father told him that no matter what the risk, "you need to learn." So, after 16 hours in the field each day, Dong stole away at night with a kerosene lamp to pore over two math and physics books his father had salvaged for him. Eventually the authorities caught on to Dong's reading, but since he disguised his books to resemble Mao's Little Red Book, they praised his party fervor. That reputation gave him the rare chance to attend college, leave...
...Gabe Mirkin and Marshall Hoffman) and serves it all up with a commonsensical approach that stresses his four Ds: decision, determination, discipline and diligence. His unballyhooed fifth D, of course, is deference. He ministers to egos as deftly as to flesh, and he is sympathetic to the open-pore scrutiny and pressures faced by performers. "They are subject to more criticism than they were ten years ago," notes Isaacson...