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...happen to be a woman, plan on adding 20 seconds to your morning ritual. That’s how much longer women wait to get their coffee compared to men, according to a study by Middlebury College economics professor Caitlin Knowles Myers...
...campaign ritual--fielding questions by Tim Russert on Meet the Press. His famous interview style seeks to trap politicians with their own words. But does the technique shed light on the candidates or does it require them to spend time providing context for their previous statements, crowding out more meaningful queries? It was Barack Obama's turn on Nov. 11; the previous week, Fred Thompson's. The Russert ratio of gotcha to substance questions...
It’s finally here. One of the most exciting games of the year is coming up this weekend, featuring one of those quaint, storied rivalries that could only exist between Ivy League schools. It’s got history, it’s got ritual taunts and jeers, and it inspires two student bodies not generally thought of as sports fanatics to yell their heads off at each other. In short, it’s one of the best times of the year for fans of Harvard athletics...
...process should determine the full extent of police culpability. But the outrage should run both deeper, and wider. It should begin with the fact that the kind of violence that erupted in and near stadiums after news of Sandri's death emerged has become as much of a consistent ritual in Italy as a morning espresso. While the country's sports "intelligentsia" debated whether all games should have been suspended on Sunday, no one doubted that mayhem would break loose. And it did: so-called fans in the northern cities of Milan and Bergamo fought with police, while their counterparts...
Every Easter, Venice's dignitaries board an official boat, sail out into the Adriatic and drop a gold ring into the water, symbolizing by this centuries-old ritual the city's marriage to the sea. For a long time, the union was a splendid and prosperous one. Thanks to its sprawling trade network, Venice became a wealthy imperial power in the 13th century, its institutions later mimicked by the Dutch and English. The city-state's mighty fleets patrolled the Mediterranean, while its merchants haggled at the far reaches of the Silk Road, dispatching the wonders of Asia back...