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...scorn that arises from my confession, I cannot act aloof about the fact that I might retain a few dozen more brain cells than my cable-enhanced companions. While I suppose I could be proud of my eccentricity, I have learned from experience that revealing this fun fact about myself is simply not in the same category as double-jointedness or coming from Guam. Unlike an entertaining personal anecdote or funky physical feature, TV-lessness brands you as a black hole in the universe of normal social interaction...
...Philadelphia last week, suffering a 43% vote of no confidence from investors. You would think it would have prompted the board to take a long, hard look at whether he was more liability than asset. But its response, while swift, was largely unsatisfying to critics: the board let Eisner retain his role as chief executive but tapped director George Mitchell to replace him as chairman--even though Mitchell himself received a 24% no-confidence vote...
...killed at least 200, Spain 's center-right Popular Party was expected to retain its hold on power in Sunday's general election. Where the left is still in power, all is not going well. Poland and Hungary elected leftist governments in 2001 and 2002 respectively; both are now at or near all-time lows in opinion polls. And while Britain 's Labour government seems safe for the moment, despite voter disaffection with Tony Blair, support for German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democratic Party is ebbing away; last month it lost a key election in Hamburg...
...walk to class every day. This gives me the opportunity at age 50 to do it. Here I get to go to classes taught by great professors. You don’t get a grade, but a grade is meaningless—it’s what you retain and what you learn. Like if I go to Alan Dershowitz’s criminal law class, I’m sure he’ll say something that will stick with me. That’s what it’s all about...
There was little surprise when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last week dissolved Parliament and called a general election. Nor is the outcome of the March 21 vote much of a cliffhanger: most analysts predict that Abdullah's ruling National Front coalition will comfortably retain its two-thirds majority in Parliament. But the man who succeeded long-serving former PM Mahathir Mohamad last November has shown he intends big changes after the election...