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...enough to know that only suckers choose between art and commerce. "I'm not ready to fly coach," jokes Maguire, and indeed Taking the Long Way could easily sub as the title for their marketing plan. They'll tour starting in July and flog the record on a few select talk shows. "Natalie's new motto is, 'What would Bruce Springsteen do?'" says Robison, laughing. "Not that we're of that caliber, but 'Would Bruce Springsteen do The View?'" They're not doing The View...
...Alaska, where they raced to drill ice-fishing holes, and finally arrived in Denver, Colo., where they had to arrange a set of national flags in the order in which they had visited the countries. On Wednesday night, Betty Averell joined her son, all his fellow contestants, and a select group of his friends for a viewing party in a New York bar. John P. Blickstead ’06, Averell’s friend and fellow Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) member, was there and said the atmosphere was “euphoric” during the final moments...
...Here's how it works: Select TSA employees will be trained to identify suspicious individuals who raise red flags by exhibiting unusual or anxious behavior, which can be as simple as changes in mannerisms, excessive sweating on a cool day, or changes in the pitch of a person's voice. Racial or ethnic factors are not a criterion for singling out people, TSA officials say. Those who are identified as suspicious will be examined more thoroughly; for some, the agency will bring in local police to conduct face-to-face interviews and perhaps run the person's name against national...
...honesty, we probably would have gotten an at-large bid if we hadn’t qualified,” Porter said. A Harvard co-ed team which has hovered around the top of the rankings all year would most likely have been looked kindly upon by the selection committee, which selects its nationals participants much in the same way that committees select at-large bids for their NCAA tournaments in sports like basketball and lacrosse.The committee had little sympathy for the Crimson, however, in its scheduling of nationals. This year’s event begins during Harvard?...
...cognition and education said, “in the area of scholarship, the thing that’s most precious is the esteem of your peers, and I’m very honored and humbled that people of the stature of the American Philosophical Society have chosen to select me to their ranks...