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...think this all started with, ‘Oh, we’re doing so much work, let’s get credit for it,’” Marcus Stern, the HRDC faculty advisor remarked at the meeting. And that’s true. That’s because when Biology concentrators spend fifteen or twenty hours a week doing research in a lab, they can get course credit. But when I do a show, not only do I not get course credit for my fifteen to twenty hours a week of rehearsal; I get met with...
...DAVID STERN, NBA commissioner, describing the Nov. 19 brawl between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons...
...true that films are more sex-obsessed these days. All of pop culture is. Americans listen to Howard Stern, giggle over Janet Jackson, collect unrated DVD editions of the American Pie movies, gossip about celebrities' dirty secrets. We ogle (and then condemn) the dropping of a towel on a Monday Night Football teaser, leaf through Jenna Jameson's How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, log onto the Internet and bathe in all that warm cyberswill. But all this is essentially kid stuff, somewhere between adolescent and infantile in its voyeuristic avidity. It codifies the randy talk...
...controversial new book has sparked a backlash, prompt-ing a store in Minneapolis, Minn., to abruptly rescind a speaking invitation to the author. Is it a racy Henry Miller--style novel? A political screed? A Howard Stern tell-all? No, the Rrated tome arousing concerns about obscene language and public decency is, of all things, a cookbook...
...less than the 25% it needs to be able to block strategic company decisions. BP, by contrast, whose contract was signed eight months before Khodorkovsky's arrest, has a 50% share in its Russian joint venture. "That's a deal we won't see repeated," says Jonathan Stern of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. "The climate now is for strategic minority investments by foreign companies in Russian energy." Says William F. Browder, president of Hermitage Capital, an investment group based in Moscow: "For foreigners, the opportunities are dwindling very quickly...