Word: quests
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...there's plenty to love, and loathe. But whatever you think of Manning, I would argue that it's best to root against him in the Super Bowl. Yes, even among his fans. It's Manning's quest for that one missing part, that one imperfection, that will sustain our attention. "From a fan's perspective, the joy is in the conversation," says sports sociologist Jay Coakley, professor emeritus at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. "Peyton's longing for a Super Bowl keeps the conversation going, and if he wins, that conversation stops." In an age of sports...
...some shred of justification for the worst foreign policy debacle in a generation. When he writes that the death of Saddam "might remind Americans of the fundamental justice of this war," he has convenient amnesia on a key fact. The Administration did not sell the Iraq war as a quest for justice; it sold it by telling lies about Iraq's wmd and al-Qaeda connections and imminent threats. When all those proved false, Bush and the neocons began manufacturing a series of substitute sales pitches to cover the smell of a policy that was rotten from the beginning. Kristol...
...including course instructors’ promising to don fairy costumes on exam day and extra points on the final) have been insufficient in motivating Harvard students to respond. As of Friday, only 50.55 percent of students had completed the evaluations. Harvard has dangled plenty of carrots in its quest to get students to fill out CUE evaluations, but those efforts have not worked. Now, instead of bribes of sugarplums such as extra funding for the House with the highest response rate, Harvard should rethink how to make the CUE most useful to students and use a stick to hold those...
...world's other star molecular gastronomist, Heston Blumenthal of London's Fat Duck, largely avoided the question of technology versus taste, instead focusing on a new element in his ongoing quest to generate emotion through food. He introduced a new reservation system for his restaurant that involves a website tour and aromatizers filled with candy scents. It's all part of a plan to create excitement even before the client walks in the restaurant door. "The one thing I want a customer to say is that they had fun," said Blumenthal...
...some shred of justification for the worst foreign policy debacle in a generation. When he writes that the death of Saddam "might remind Americans of the fundamental justice of this war," he has convenient amnesia on a key fact. The Administration did not sell the Iraq war as a quest for justice; it sold it by telling lies about Iraq's WMD and al-Qaeda connections and imminent threats. When all those proved false, Bush and the neocons began manufacturing a series of substitute sales pitches to cover the smell of a policy that was rotten from the beginning. Kristol...