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Much like a high-school reunion, speaking in public and a first junior-high dance, Orientation Week is much better experienced after it is over. The unique combination of anxiety, freedom, novelty, social awkwardness and a new beginning spell nine days (from move-in until the first day of classes) of a terrifyingly mixed blessing. Only now, two years after my first week, do I look back at that time with nostalgia and wistfulness...
Regardless, the first big challenge for Chen and the rest of the Crimson squad will come in a mere week and half against Eastern foe, Queens. Although the matchup comes early on in the season, a victory against the New York squad could spell serious dividends come seeding time for the Eastern Qualifying Championships in October...
After leaving Soviet-controlled Hungary for London in 1947, Soros fell under the spell of a college professor, the philosopher Karl Popper. It was Popper who coined the term open society--meaning one in which argument and debate are encouraged, the opposite of a dictatorship, which claims an ultimate truth but derives it only through force. Soros' approach to investing, indeed his whole life, is informed by Popper's work...
...death of a fashion innovator does not necessarily spell doom for the company that bears his or her name. The fashion houses founded by Coco Chanel and Guccio Gucci, for example, continue to thrive long after their founders' passing. Yet such was the force of Gianni Versace's personality, life-style and flair for publicity, that the question of succession is more pertinent than ever: Without Versace, can his empire survive...
...Drosnin says that the future can be foretold via patterns of words found in the Jewish Torah. Hmmm. Following an elaborate decoding system of my own creation, I have deduced that the letters in the name Michael Drosnin can be rearranged to spell out the mysterious phrase "Him conn'd Israel." Any message in that? ERIC BENDER Kirkland...