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...will have to be content with smashing Yale and Princeton instead. Play Money, or, How I Quit My Day Job and Struck It Rich in Virtual Loot Farming by Julian Dibbell While hardcore gamers might view gaming as a “night job” akin to prostitution, slam poetry, or overseas military contracting, the rest of us know that the only tangible benefit of playing games all the time is the learned ability to push buttons rapidly while swearing and forgetting to bathe. And even a state school Communications major can recognize the picture of the scantily clad...
...content, sort of. The all-star team—Giamatti, Bates, Weisz, Richardson, Spacey, and Vaughn—delivers strong, impassioned performances, especially in light of the weak dialogue and story line they’re faced with. Vaughn’s interactions with an orphan boy named Slam, played by Bobb’e J. Thompson, stand out as particularly cute with a capital K. “Fred Claus” is not a movie one buys and adds to the family collection alongside “Christmas Vacation” or “A Charlie Brown...
...Fall Classics. Last off-season, the Sox overpaid for two free agents, outfielder J.D. Drew (five years, $70 million) and Japanese pitching phenom Daisuke Matsuzaka (six years, $52 million), just like the damn Yankees usually do. These players, however, did produce in the post-season: Drew's grand slam against the Cleveland Indians in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series helped propel the Sox past the Tribe; Matsuzaka's clutch pitching, and hitting, in Game 3 against the Colorado Rockies helped Boston complete the sweep...
They're a droll, quiet outfit; they don't argue or slam their flinty, flattopped manager Clint Hurdle or talk cosmically about the streak, which has propelled them to a place no one expected when the season began at the end of a snowy Colorado winter. "We're young but good players and a good team, and an organization headed in the right direction. I expected to win from Day One," the whip-armed Tulowitzki said...
Petersen, SLAM, and the slew of student commentators with similar opinions have got one thing right: Harvard University isn’t very democratic. The majority of decision-making power at Harvard, as in most other universities, lies with a few appointed officials who are relatively insulated from student opinion...