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Purdy's book is in its way strikingly mature and knowledgeable, extraordinarily well crafted, and in the end profoundly meaningful. This does not mean the book is flawless. It simply means that in the sum of things Jedediah Purdy has written a book that, in its example of a person who is unafraid to express out loud his delicate loves, richly deserves fulfillment of its modest request: "I cannot help believing that we need a way of thinking, and doing, that has in it more promise of goodness than the one we are now following. I want to speak...
...sumé: Sophomore, was the stroke of the varsity lightweight boat that won last year's national lightweight crew championship. He's really sweet, extremely funny, and congenial, a very decent...
Hawking's 1969 paper proving that time had a beginning won second prize in the Gravitational Research Foundation's annual competition, "winning me the princely sum of $300," said Hawking, as a cartoon depicting a number '2' trophy appeared on the screen behind...
These are more than just flights of nostalgia. On the Senior PGA Tour this year, prize money totaling more than $53 million--a record sum--will be awarded in 45 separate events. A senior golf-tournament win can bring as much as $347,000; two top performers, Hale Irwin, 54, and Gil Morgan, 53, have each earned more than $2 million a year in the past two years...
...imagine a global-positioning device that automatically interfaces with a database of ATMs so that when you visit an unfamiliar city, you can instantly find a machine that takes your bank card without adding its usurious access fee. Or, if taste buds tingle, it finds the closest dim sum-parlor...