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...most literal efforts to turn the recession into entertainment will--like past network trend-chasing--end up being too repetitive and too far behind the curve. In which case, pray for the networks to make as many series as possible about the lousy economy. That'll be the surest sign that the recession is almost over...
That's because many believe gracing a Madden NFL box is the surest path to the inactive list. Since announcer John Madden first ceded the cover of his eponymous game for the 1999 edition, one of the NFL's quirkiest subplots has been the "Madden Curse," which appears to leave the game's cover boys injured or ineffective the following season. "The jinx thing bites us every year," Chris Erb, a marketing director for the juggernaut video game, said in 2007. "I haven't told this to people, but I've got a bottle of champagne in my office that...
Silly politicians. Don't they know the surest way to drum up interest in a pornographic movie on campus is to ban it? When a state senator threatened to strip funding from the University of Maryland over its plans to show a XXX-rated film in the student center, school officials nixed the event. But fired-up students responded on Monday by holding a free-speech demonstration that drew media coverage from as far away as Thailand and Australia...
...that student chooses to be educated, the best teachers, with the experience to know what works and what does not, will use technology to reach a wider audience. The amazing proliferation of software, video, and the Internet in every part of business and private life is the surest fact of our times. But slow has been their trickle into classrooms. Is it because these tools have no place in the teaching trade? No. Rather, public schools and their tenured employees, unused to the forces of creative destruction, are uniquely ill-suited to develop and deploy new technologies...
...that store. Back at the counter, paying for that canary. Isn’t that strange? I can’t remember any of those wonderful things she said to me every single hour, but I can still think up her paying for that dumb canary. She had the surest smile I’d ever seen.Ezekiel hustled the horses and I finally came to, pretending the sky was clear and pretending to watch it. But I kept thinking of Mama, and when I looked at Ezekiel, I had to wonder if she would have liked that he was free...