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...those who already have all the toys they want, even a work of art like the bike isn't enough; they want the experience of building the bike of their dreams. So Ecosse offers--for $3.6 million--the Ecosse Spirit ES1, a package of two high-performance bikes, plus the chance to help build them with Formula 1 engineers and two weeks or more of training with championship-level racers. "Most guys who are into motorcycles are interested in the mechanical workings of the engine--getting the chance to work with a team of builders will be incredible," says Coldwells...
...Dark Materials--the phrase comes from Milton's Paradise Lost--takes place in a glinting, shadowy, clockwork version of Edwardian England, with some (very) notable differences. Every human in Pullman's world has a daemon, a kind of talking spirit-animal that goes wherever he or she goes. "They're able to talk to their daemons, much like talking to yourself," Pullman explains over breakfast at his publisher's offices in New York City. "Like having a conversation with your conscience or your memory." In Pullman's world, the church has evolved into a sinister totalitarian bureaucracy called the Magisterium...
Neither Christmas Story nor Wonderful Life, though, has an exclusive on the spirit of Christmas. The holiday is full of paradox: sacred and secular, giving and gorging, loving others and suffering them. It's not so bad to get that cornball annual reminder that Bedford Falls needs you. But it's not so terrible either to wonder whether, sometimes, you'd be better off without Bedford Falls...
...Osasona ’07-’08, spent Thanksgiving on campus purely by choice. “Thanksgiving is so close to Christmas that it simply makes sense to wait,” said Osasona, who passed up a weekend at home in Atlanta. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, members of the Woodbridge Society, an organization for Harvard’s international students, bonded through a Thanksgiving-kickoff party on Wednesday, dinner at Quincy House on Thursday, and a movie night in Lowell House on Saturday. According to Woodbridge Society board member Or Gadish...
This power grab is a clear violation of the spirit of our Constitution that undermines the authority of Congress to legislate. Effectively making an end-run around the unconstitutionality of line-item vetoes, it concentrates far too much power in the presidency, which is disconcerting no matter who is occupying the White House. Although legal scholars may be able to dream up fancy justifications for such actions, signing statements fly in the face of common sense and basic civics. We hope their use is discontinued...