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Many people, Colbert included, were worried that that guy would be too much to take for 30 minutes. (Then again, people blow a full hour on Bill O'Reilly.) But Colbert inhabits his pose so lustily--"I've just swallowed 20 condoms full of truth, and I'm smuggling them across the border!"--that his glee is infectious. Like the band Weezer or The O.C.'s Seth Cohen, he is in the grand modern tradition of the swaggering nerd. (The nerd part, by the way, is not unautobiographical. An ardent Lord of the Rings fan, Colbert is the proud owner...
...Crimson two years ago. “Princeton, over the last few years, has given us a lot of trouble,” Donato said. “They’re very well coached, and offensively they have some guys that had great numbers last year, so they pose a different set of challenges.” Those challenges are rooted in the Tigers’ offense, which second-year coach Guy Gadowsky has improved during his tenure. In last year’s game at the Bright Center, Princeton scored six goals. “They have...
...Derivatives Perhaps the most profitable and certainly the most arcane investments of the year were something called derivative securities. Derivatives -- abstractions of stocks, bonds and futures -- are a huge business ($4.5 trillion in contracts) but pose a danger to world financial markets because of lack of regulation. As such, they are often called the junk bonds...
...Motorola PowerPC Chip Intel rolled out its new Pentium chip, but Motorola stole the spotlight with its PowerPC microprocessor. Produced in partnership with IBM and Apple, the PowerPC could pose the first serious challenge to Intel's dominance of the $67.7 billion desktop market...
...Class of 1922, “squirmed uncomfortably” as he sat before the court—even though he might have sat still.But Wright’s fictionalizations leave at least this reader squirming. At the Coop Tuesday night, when a Crimson photographer asked Wright to pose for a picture with a gavel in hand, Wright balked—noting, fairly, that a photo of that sort would make him appear “judgmental.” He added, “I try to keep an even journalistic keel on the whole thing...