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These guys were a bit more meticulous about warding off blows than the previous pair--Norman especially was incredibly agile and ran Zhao all over the ring to evade being hit, while simultaneously landing straightforward yet stylish punches. Norman also seemed to have a fanclub, conveniently located in the first row, carrying signs with slogans such as "The sun never sets on his biceps...
...diplomas. For 17-odd years in the classroom, success has been relatively easy to define: Good work is, in theory, awarded with good grades; the higher the grade, the more consummately the student has achieved her task. Quantified through its positioning in an alphabetical hierarchy, academic success is seemingly straightforward. Yet, once we depart from the academic bubble, the only quantitative measure available to translate the abstract concept of success into an intelligible form is money. Rather than engaging in the overwhelming process of defining success on their own terms, a significant number of Harvard students have accepted the easy...
...When Pew researchers set out last year to map the U.S.'s religious landscape with a groundbreaking survey of more than 35,000 people, they expected fairly straightforward answers to questions about individual religious affiliations. (The survey included more detailed questions about religious beliefs and practices than have been asked in past censuses; the 2010 census will not ask about religion at all.) What the Pew researchers didn't anticipate is that fully 44% of Americans have changed faiths at least once. Some converted from one religion or denomination to another; others grew up with no tradition only to adopt...
...series of columns about the experience. Later in the film, he brings Ayers to live in the LAMP Community for the homeless, and it is here that the film is most compelling but also most misguided. The portrayal of the plight of L.A.’s homeless is straightforward, unapologetic, and sometimes violent. The transcendent beauty of Beethoven’s music—Ayers’ favorite—clashes constantly with the images of the desperate and abandoned vagabonds, and the conflict is intentional and incisive. But the heavy emphasis on this political undercurrent of urban suffering...
These unlikely findings are the result of a paper that will be published in the fall in the Journal of Consumer Research. The study was conducted by a team of investigators from three universities who did their work in the most straightforward way possible: by offering subjects unhealthy foods and healthy foods and seeing what they chose...