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...central activity of four of the five societies (Skull and Bones, Wolf's Head, Brazelius, and Book and Snake) is something called the "audit" which goes on all year. Members share their life story with the group. In Scroll and Key, the other of the five societies, the experience is one of debating issues, instead of the audit. The point of the societies is not social but rather to get to know a group of people intensely and learn about yourself in the process. Though the proctor claims the societies can be considered elitist because of the incredibly small number...
...masters of the pictorial throwaway line was Ogata Kenzan, best known as a potter. He and his more famous brother Ogata Korin--whose paintings mark the apotheosis of lyrical, erudite Edo painting--left an indelible mark on Edo style. Nothing could seem more offhand than Kenzan's scroll The Eight-Fold Bridge, an illustration of a poem with the poem itself written into it--the planks of the bridge brusquely indicated, the calligraphy mingling with the broadly brushed leaves of water iris as if it too were part of the reed growth of the pond. And yet the whole image...
...guts, no prime time. So business is left largely to expert talking heads. On cable, market-oriented business networks are surging like hot IPOs, but sometimes they give us information overload. The moment-to-moment changes in the major stock averages flash nervously on Bloomberg News; the stock tickers scroll rapidly on CNBC and CNNfn, citing the latest prices of individual shares; today's "stocks to watch" are featured on almost all the channels. All this encourages quick in-and-out trading, usually a route to the poorhouse...
...this is the kind of atmosphere you desire, you definitely need to blind carbon copy the invitation. First of all, it's really annoying to have to scroll down through eight screens worth of names. Second, blatantly cc-ing e-mail to me says, "Look at how many friends I have. I'm so popular." Annoying again...
...here's how you can keep those pesky cookies away. If you use Microsoft's Internet Explorer, choose Internet Options under your View menu, click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Cookies subsection and choose "Disable all cookie use." If you use Netscape Navigator, go to Edit Preferences under the Edit menu and choose Advanced, then "Turn all cookies off." But be warned: many sites won't let you in if your browser rejects cookies, and others will harass you with dialogue boxes urging you to accept...