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...relief, then, to find little mention of Iraq in Friedman's new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 488 pages). Instead the author embarks on a "trail of globalization" that leads him from Wal-Mart warehouses in Bentonville, Ark., to office parks in Bangalore, India. Thanks to a convergence of trends--cheap telecommunications, expanded trade, open-source software, Google--the global playing field is being "flattened" faster than ever before, allowing workers in India and China to compete with, and even outperform, their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition...
...frequency of singles—and obviously larger rooms in general—than any of the River Houses (with the exception of Mather’s lovely prison cells). There must be some correlation between being satiated and well-housed and Quadlings’ athletic skills, evidently: The Straus Cup record of seven consecutive wins remains in the Quad with Cabot House. The River Houses should know better than to mess with people who walk miles everyday. It’s training, not punishment...
...comes to putting in an honest day's hard labor, suddenly, whoops! It's time for a scene change, or a flashback, or a few pages of deep internal monologue. That's what makes Elizabeth Gaffney's Metropolis (Random House; 461 pages) and Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 390 pages) so unusual. They don't push work into the margins: Their characters actually get stuff done...
Douthat’s dissections of class dynamics in his first-year Straus entryway, ethnic self-segregation in the College, and the Hasty Pudding embezzlement scandal are entertaining and provocative, raising salient questions about the role of race and status at an ostensibly diverse university...
...We’re busy, and our prefect set up the study break [sign-up] list on top of the stairs,” explains Ned D.H. Levin ’08 of Straus. As of yet, no one has made the trek up the stairs to sign up to host...