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...support my brother’s attachment to the family on Spooner Street? For the most part, he can distinguish the inappropriate from the benign. Eager to please us so that he will be allowed to study more episodes, he really tries to listen and retain selectively. Yes, he occasionally repeats things he shouldn’t because some of the material is over his head. But I think the inspiration he gains from watching far outweighs the risk of his premature exposure to the sinister adult world. “Family Guy” is not for every youngster...
...solve the problem of physical space—Sanders’ capacity is 1,000, and, thanks to auditors, late students are routinely turned away—Justice could be simulcasted to other lecture halls. The class could still retain its in-class participatory component by locating microphones in those rooms as well. Alternatively, tapes of Justice lectures could simply be made available after every class. The concern that routine taping would dampen participation should not be taken seriously. It is a bitter irony that students taking the course through the Harvard Extension School are virtually guaranteed space...
...january: The idiot selectors went for three spinners. There's no turn. Strauss and Trescothick, free of my taunts, put on 400 for the first wicket; there's rain forecast for the next week. Great for the farmers. Who cares? Might as well turn into a tsunami. England will retain the Ashes. Sod them...
...substantive constitutional objections. Although it calls for the distribution of the public-school funds primarily through districts, the private-school money is directed not to schools but to families, in keeping with the concerns of the 2002 Supreme Court decision allowing private-school vouchers so long as the parents retain a "true private choice" as to where their children learn...
TIME How do you retain this urgent sense that Toyota must keep changing and improving when you've worked there for 41 years? Aren't you tired of change...