Word: standings
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Some of them are respected scientists. Some of them are psychologists. At least one of them is a briefly married former TV-morning-show host. A surprising number of them are stand-up comedians. And they all want to give you dating advice. If you're single and don't wish to be, have they got a TV show/book/scientific theory for you! As if you haven't suffered enough...
...separated. Even if only half of them want to find a spouse, that's a nice fat target for the media to aim at in a market where such uniformity of desire is rare. So while dating and mating instructions are probably as old as Australopithecus (Tip 1: "Stand up straighter"), right now the advice-o-meter is running hot. When a coupling manual turned movie--He's Just Not That Into You--is a box-office hit, something's up. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...
...religions, at least in Christian religions, you have to prove to a group of other people that God has spoken to you. This in psychiatry is called thought insertion. It's a diagnosis. So if I believe God has spoken to me, in the religious world I get to stand for ordination; in the scientific world, I could be diagnosed. Maybe both are right...
...Verdi DiSesa, Niko Hrdy and Ned Reeves.Hrdy—seeded at four this week—gave a very impressive showing in one of the three opening matches, swiftly beating his opponent, John Roberts, in three straight games 9-5, 9-4, 9-7. Hrdy, a stand-out this season for Harvard, continued to excite the fans with his skill and composure.Possibly the most exciting opening performance though, came from junior Richard Hill, seeded sixth for the match. Hill took his opponent to five sets 9-2, 4-9, 9-5, 6-9, 9-0, winning his first, third...
...grass in the berm of the alley, long veiny threads that reach deep in the ground to drink where no one sees.” These elements fail to indicate any deeper, more enlightening reading of the story, and since they are not sufficiently integrated into the plot, they stand out glaringly. And, for a novel following in Faulkner’s footsteps to mimic the human mind as closely as possible, such flat goodwill and deeply poetic style undermines Phillips’ very premise. It stands, not as an exposition on the human psyche, but one of human ideals...