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...approve of director Liz Friedlander's camera tricks. To make the dance moves look fancier, she'll momentarily speed them up or slow them down. But the fogey in me (who am I kidding? the fogey is me) admires the lesson Pierre teaches his students: that to take up ballroom dancing is the easiest way for them to shake off the carapaces of their street-hardened attitude and discover the social uses of discipline, civility, subtlety. And if they think of dancing as orchestrated sex, as screwing in three-quarter time, that...
...with any administration officials, in fact. “They just wrote me strongly-worded e-mails and cut off my internet,” he says.Nygard says he is not surprised that he was caught. “It was my first time ever having access to high speed internet,” he recalls. “I was downloading quite a bit . . . stuff I shouldn’t have been downloading, like new movies and stuff.”Nygard says that he found ways to navigate his year-long expulsion from Harvard’s network...
...staff in the technology center had spent 21/2 years dealing with it. The new examiner rejected MercExchange's application after only a few days, although the shift may reflect the new way the patent office handles re-examinations in cases more than two years old, with an emphasis on speed...
...rock that make up the earth's crust are ever so slowly sliding past one another, borne by poorly understood currents that roil through a sea of semimolten rock. By keeping tabs on the position of key landmarks on either side of the fault, scientists can measure the speed at which the plates are traveling, in this case about 2 in. a year. The problem for the Bay Area boils down to this: except for one short section, the plates on either side of the San Andreas are tightly locked together. It's only when the stress becomes overwhelming that...
Despite those obstacles and a decade after his initial fame (so much for speed to market), Yeganeh is taking his soup store national. He and a group of partners are expanding the Fifth Avenue tourist magnet (a few blocks from the modest original location) into a 1,000-store franchise called the Original SoupMan. Seventeen are open, with plans for 23 more this year in the U.S. and Canada. Yeganeh has also begun selling packaged soup in grocery stores in 14 states...