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...test: 10:03 p.m. Mail Goggles is activated. I send a control e-mail to test my sober math skills. I subtract 12 from 22, and wonder if I'll ever be too incapacitated to come up with the number 10. "You know you can change the difficulty level," says Laura. We pour ourselves some wine, change the difficulty to Level 3 and start watching a movie. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...harmonica and to build bridges to nowhere. A worthy crusade, a hardy McCain perennial, but one that would net only about $20 billion per year. Meanwhile, McCain was also proposing to extend the Bush tax cuts and add others, including a significant corporate-tax-rate cut, which would subtract about $300 billion. "McCain has set a responsible goal," said Bob Bixby of the deficit-obsessed Concord Coalition, "but he has no plausible way to achieve it. His budget would actually move things in the opposite direction, away from balance...
...Adams the man, however, is the good fortune of HBO's John Adams the miniseries. Because viewers have little preconception of the man, the miniseries is free to do what history should, which is not just reproduce the past but reflect on the present. Add a little diversity and subtract a few powdered wigs, John Adams says, and we're having essentially the same arguments we had more than 200 years...
...According to Ali, around 1,420 had registered to forego the meal plan on February 28, compared to the 700 of 2004. The HIS will meet with HUDS on Monday to compare the number of pledges to the actual numbers. To calculate the final donation, Ali said HUDS will subtract the number of diners yesterday from the number of diners on the same date last year, then pay for the difference. HUDS representatives could not be reached for comment yesterday. Ali added that the day’s fast—a ritual that comprises one of the five Pillars...
...This year, Ukrainian-born winners Dinara Nadzhafova and Ilya Petrov are coming to Sanders Theatre at Harvard as part of a tour covering major U.S cities, including Chicago, New York, Houston, and Miami. By the age of 10, when most of us were still learning how to add and subtract fractions, Nadzhafova was playing the piano in musical festivals and even snagging first place in a few international competitions. Now, at 17, her résumé of prizes has grown lengthy. Nadzhafova’s chaperone, Svetlana Gorzhevskaya, the program director for arts and culture for the foundation, says...