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...show then shifted to the proctors—the eight Ivy football coaches. As the Q-and-A session got underway, a staffer from the Ivy League offices proclaimed himself “moderator.” I thought this would mean that he would be the one to choose who to call on to pose questions to each coach. The moderator apparently did not agree with my assessment as he proceeded to ask all the questions, which ranged in difficulty and complexity from “Tell us about your offense,” to “Tell...
...hour-long question and answer session which followed the screening, Orlean expressed her admiration for the shadowy Donald Kaufman, instantly naming him as the one person, dead or alive, with whom she would choose to dine given the chance...
...flood of inexperienced drivers, and a marked indifference to safety on the part of many motorists, and it's little wonder that Asia's highways sometimes resemble a Mad Max movie set. Shanghai resident Huang Wei, a recent graduate of a Chinese driving school, recalls how during one training session her instructor scolded her for using her turn indicator to signal her intention to change lanes: "He shouted at me, 'What are you doing? Never use your turn signal for changing lanes! If you let the car behind you know what you are doing, he will never make...
...their summer break debating that question, thanks to a mistake they made last winter when they inadvertently revived a "day of rest" rule; hotels and hospitals and nuclear power plants would have had to give workers a weekend day off or be fined $500. After a special legislative session was convened to fix the error, Virginia's workers, like the rest of us, are once more potentially on call 24/7. Meanwhile, Rhode Island just became the 32nd state to let liquor stores open every Sunday; until this month, they could do so only in December, perhaps because even George Washington...
...William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” speech. But, on more than a few occasions between Miss New Mexico’s dreadful rendering of the Star Spangled Banner at the start of the Democratic National Convention’s first afternoon session and the beginning of nationwide broadcast coverage at 10 p.m., I wasn’t exactly paying overly careful attention...