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Douthat’s sharpest observations are reserved for an illuminating chapter on final clubs, chronicling his ultimately unsuccessful punch for the Porcellian. Against all odds, the shy, unconnected Douthat survives two rounds of cuts, allowing him access to cocktail parties at the vast estates of well-endowed club alumni...
WHETHER YOU LOVE THE '80s or hate the '80s, there's no denying that Billy Idol was the '80s. Of the myriad good-looking, platinum-haired, leather-clad guys who sang about sex, Idol had the sharpest jaw, the spikiest mane, the tightest pants and a dirty trinity of hits about masturbation (Dancing with Myself), virginity (White Wedding) and the age of consent (Cradle of Love). Depth was not his specialty, but as a snarling, seductive wild child--half Elvis, half Sid Vicious--he captured the ebullient superficiality of the age. When he faded from the scene...
...Indian governments have ignored the poor in the past. Indeed, for decades, governments with a socialist ideology threw money at poverty?only to find that much of it was wasted through corruption and mismanagement. The sharpest reductions in Indian poverty seem to have come not when New Delhi had spent the most, but when the economy had grown the fastest. After India began dismantling its socialist economy in 1991, the percentage of the population living in poverty fell from...
...Shortly after its May Budget, the Australian government will legislate to reform a system that almost everyone - from shattered, working-class dads to the country's sharpest legal minds - agrees is broken. "These will be the most substantial reforms of family law since the 1970s," says Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock, who envisages a cheaper, quicker and less adversarial system designed to give both parents, wherever possible, every chance to stay involved with their kids...
RHIC, which generates high-energy subatomic collisions between gold ions, quietly opened for business in 2000. Even RHIC’s sharpest opponents calculate the risk of a world-ending “strangelet scenario” to be very, very small. According to Posner, an upper-bound estimate of the danger of a strangelet disaster is 1 in 500,000 over the 10-year period for which RHIC will be in operation. An alternative estimate from Swiss and Israeli scientists puts the danger at 1 in 500 million. But although the likelihood of a strangelet catastrophe is minimal, should...