Word: pounds
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...Pound Professor of Law Roberto M. Unger, a Brazilian by birth, left Cambridge for Brasilia last week to enter the famously rough-and-tumble world of Brazilian politics. Unger officially assumed the title of Secretary of Long Term Planning last Tuesday...
...bomb was made safe and its constituent parts taken away for forensic analysis. Later, a second device was found, in a car pound in Park Lane that is overlooked by some of London's swankiest hotels. Traffic police had towed a second Mercedes, illegally parked near Tiger Tiger, to the pound early yesterday morning. The cars will provide ample forensic evidence but for now the facts of the case remain enveloped in a smog of speculation and confusion. Early reports that the driver had crashed the first car into a trash can outside Tiger Tiger, then abandoned the vehicle, have...
...that economists have given it a name: Engel's law (for Ernst Engel, a 19th century statistician). The foodie revolution that began in the '70s--arugula over iceberg, short ribs over brisket, etc.--has challenged Engel's law among élites who will pay, say, $80 for a single pound of Nantucket Wild Gourmet cold-smoked salmon. But finding impossibly tender lox is a recreational, not nutritional, pastime. And anyway, most Americans aren't spending more on food...
...20th century saw the rise of Modernism and brilliant but difficult and allusive writers like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. (Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was first published in Poetry magazine.) Poems became less like high-end pop songs and more like math problems to be solved. They turned into the property of snobs and professors. They started to feel like homework. "It's thought of as a subject to be taught instead of simply an art to be enjoyed," says Christian Wiman, Poetry's editor...
...more like we didn’t expect to. At 4 p.m. on a Friday, we posted to our blog a video that a Yale senior had included in his investment bank applications—a ludicrous sequence that, if you believe what you see, shows off his 495-pound bench press, 120 mile per hour tennis serve, motivational schlock, and ballroom dance moves. As other blogs piled on, word spread fast—and faster still when we reported on his shady consulting firm, fake charity, and partially plagiarized book about the Holocaust. All that Aleksey Vayner had wanted...