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...wanting to sacrifice precious sleep, students used makeshift beds in the lobby just outside the Adams Dining Hall...
...hefty slab of nostalgia. Time is tougher on jokes than on melodies, but it's hard now to explain precisely why Monty Python's Flying Circus, which launched on Oct. 5, 1969 with a skit about sheep nesting in trees, should have so captivated viewers. There are precious few clues in the book, which is a hexagonal feat of memory, not self-analysis, though they rightly pay tribute to comic forebears such as Spike Milligan. The launch of Python was certainly a tribute to the laissez-faire latitude of the BBC's comedy department, which cheerfully commissioned 13 shows from...
...library’s resources. If the book collection were to be centralized into “stacks” on one floor, to make better use of Hilles’ vast square-footage, the books would be able to remain in the Quad as well as open up precious space to be used by student groups...
Cool may be our country's most precious natural resource: an invisible, impalpable substance that can make a particular brand of an otherwise interchangeable product--a sneaker, a pair of jeans, an action movie--fantastically valuable. And cool can be used to predict the future. The theory goes as follows: when cool people--a group known to marketers as alpha consumers--start talking or eating or dressing or shopping a certain way, noncool people (a group that most marketers belong to, by the way) will follow them. Watch the cool kids, the alpha consumers, today, and you can see what...
...world. The energy that goes into finding fault with Windows exists in the Linux world too, but it's focused on making the code better. To help stave off the competitive threat from Linux, Microsoft recently allowed several governments across the world to take a peek at the precious Windows source code but is unlikely to go fully open source anytime soon...