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...apartment my iPhone and I became acquainted in the manner of gadgets and reviewers since time immemorial, over spicy Chinese food. The packaging is nothing special, though Apple's trademark fine manufacturing tolerances are evident even in the box, which resists opening with a satisfying pneumatic counter-suck - the cover is so precisely made it's reluctant to let air flow in around it. I hooked the iPhone up to my iBook with a feeling of pride roughly comparable to that of someone setting up an old friend with a really hot blind date. iTunes needed to download a chunk...
...Which is not to say that his topic is rich ninnies who somehow stumble through confusion to blissful amour. His people are much more ordinary than that. Take Ben for example. He lives in a nest of nerds on the dwindling remains of a long-ago court settlement. They suck on bongs and beer bottles, vaguely plan a website that will direct readers to skin scenes in movies - not knowing, of course, that it's an already overcrowded field - and dream of dreamgirls they lack the social skills to approach in real life. But if their development is arrested, they...
...Under the circumstances, the troops at Naray took their extension well, emphasizing the critical nature of their role in Afghanistan. They call it "embracing the suck." "Twelve months is long and hard. Fifteen months is longer and harder," says Sgt. Larry Scott Johnson, Weaver's assistant. "But we are soldiers, and we will accomplish the mission...
...present and future. Dinosaur Jr.’s “Beyond” is remarkably good considering their lengthy sabbatical. We can only hope that they release another album before the next life-ending meteor hits Earth, and that it won’t suck as much as “The Lost World.” —Reviewer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...competitive as her male colleagues.“There was a time when I probably was not as pushy as my male friends, who figured out the right things to do to get tenure at certain places. They would...go to dinner parties and schmooze...suck up to the right people. And I never really did that.”During graduate school at the University of Chicago, Goldin worked with renowned economists such as Nobel laureate Gary Becker, who, she says, “turned light bulbs on in my head that I didn’t know existed...