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...freaky tricks, like cueing up "The Sporting Life" by the Decemberists on both iPods, and setting them half a beat apart. The tom-toms thundered after each other in synch, and the vocals sounded like they had a cool delay (or echo) effect. At another point, I played a stand-up routine by the late great Mitch Hedberg paired with random music...
...only Harvard offered a course on Dating 101! Romance plagues everyone at college, so here’s my quick guide to figuring out what obstacles stand between you and a date, or helping you come to peace with the conclusion that you may not want a guy right...
First of all, make sure you smile, even if it’s sort of a half-grin. After all, you want to at least give the impression that you’re actually a nice person. If you enter a room with a stern face and gruff, stand-offish demeanor, even I would run away. Second, although it may go against your Harvard instinct, master the art of small talk. That doesn’t mean you should talk about the weather—unless you’re trying to engage an ESPP concentrator with your knowledge...
...noon in oxford, England, last Thursday when Gina Policelli got the news by phone. No, no one called her up; she tuned in her mobile phone to bbc News 24 and caught the latest reports of the Liberal Democrat party conference, then flipped over to Sky News, all while standing on the Oxford University campus. "This is really impressive," gushed Policelli, 25, who works at the National Library for Health at the university. Welcome to the world of mobile television, where broadcasters, mobile operators and handset makers are trying to bring traditional TV to the planet's mobile-phone users...
...political class to the German electoral stalemate, the French plainly see their own malaise reflected back from across the Rhine - and that's a depressing prospect for the main parties of both the left and the right. The French conversation casts CDU leader Angela Merkel as a Teutonic stand-in for Nicolas Sarkozy, France's super-ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical...