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...reading can be a good deal more expensive than talking, at least among voracious readers. The Kindle probably does not have many users who only read two or three books a year. That may not make the Amazon marketing management feel any better. Most marketers follow a simple rule when it comes to age. Old people will often want to buy what young people have. Young people never want what old people have, except for their money...
...Leverett House winner, Ben French '10, faced a particularly nasty opponent in a Lev resident who manically carried with him a container of broccoli. But once the organizers dispensed of the broccoli rule, French's path to victory was clear. He chased his opponent through the halls of Leverett and dispatched his opponent in a carrot-sword fight...
...history has shown that even a freely accessed digital library would not be what we want.Throughout history, storehouses of knowledge have never managed to be unadulterated houses of knowledge. Ulterior motives have always lurked amidst the stacks. France’s Bibliothèque Nationale served to consolidate the rule of the people during the French Revolution, asserting the power of the masses by, in the name of knowledge, seizing all of the private collections of the First and Second Estates. What has been considered the first public library, the library of San Marco, founded by Cosimo de?...
...Soundgarden and Rage Against the Machine into dull, MOR post-grunge, while Velvet Revolver strengthened the case for a mandatory retirement age for heavy metal musicians. On the evidence of this eponymous debut album, Tinted Windows fits the bill of the 21st century supergroup, not its 1970s counterpart.The first rule of the 21st century supergroup is that it is less than the sum of its parts. To be fair to Tinted Windows, its parts are pretty impressive. Perhaps the biggest tribute to James Iha’s talent is the sheer awfulness of “Zeitgeist...
...downturn means they are probably in for a long wait. A plan to draw poorer neighbors such as Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine closer to the E.U. will be launched on May 7. But this "Eastern Partnership" - which nudges them towards European norms of democracy, open markets and the rule of law - is also jeopardized by the crisis. "When E.U. member states themselves are entering dire straits, it will also be increasingly difficult to commit more E.U. funding for the neighbors," says Nicu Popescu from the European Council on Foreign Relations. (Read: "How One Man Plans to Sink the European Union...