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...enjoy a good wallow in Schadenfreude as much as the next voyeuristic American mediaholic, but please, don't insult me. I have some pride left. At least Frey's and Viswanathan's books were lousy. For all the ink that's already been spilled over what I refuse to call a literary imbroglio, the only person who's gone on record with any public anger at McEwan is Andrews' former agent, Vanessa Holt. "I was very angry about it," she told the Daily Mail. "I felt that it was at the very least discourteous of Ian McEwan not to have...
...pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. Six Muslims traveling from a religious conference were thrown off a plane last week in Minneapolis, Minn., even as unscreened cargo continues to stream into ports on both coasts. Shoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos. We put filters...
...Mumm account for the majority of exports. They buy Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes from the region's growers and assemble their Champagnes to ensure consistency from year to year. But the last few years have also seen the rise of smaller-scale producers, who take pride in doing things differently from their big rivals, and often make a Champagne that is full of character and sometimes cheaper than the big brands. Time found some of the best. The Cooperatives Most of Champagne's more than 15,000 growers have only tiny plots of land with...
...paper, experienced observers of the nation’s greatest rivalries know to disregard the data. “You can look at it from a lit of different angles,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “But it all still comes back to pride. Any great rivalry is a pride game.”—Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu
Unlike Drake and the rest of the College administration, we should not let pride blind us to the train wreck that will likely occur on Saturday. We should at least admit that the College and the BPD have done a positively embarrassing job by neutering one of the great traditions in American collegiate sports...