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THURSDAY At VES project/charity event/generally surreal experience Mac Attack, teeth chattered in fear and hypothermia. One former UC presidential candidate was seen scuba diving at the bottom of the pool, presumably for safety—not voyeuristic—purposes. Later that night, at the Phoenix’s Back to Mykonos, the DJ spun a wicked techno remix of Sting & the Police’s “Message in a Bottle.” An anonymous sophomore girl described the party as “bizzleboring,” but hey, it beats Stein Club. FRIDAY Despite...
South Park meets Zadie Smith's White Teeth in this offensive, riotous cartoon about a multicultural high school in South London. The trio of main characters includes scheming, crude Keisha (imagine a black female Eric Cartman); Natella, the earnest South Asian class brain; and Latrina, the bigoted white working-class bombshell. Like many good satires, Bromwell is rooted in the idea that shallowness and venality transcend color and creed. The faculty ranges from an assortment of Anglo ignoramuses to Iqbal, the greedy, sleazy Middle Eastern headmaster. And when the immigrant students discuss their favorite foods and cultural activities...
...This week Bush's approval ratings sank to levels that had pollsters quietly whistling through their teeth. It's not just the number, 34% - Truman holds the record, when only 23% approved of the job he was doing in November of 1951, and Nixon fell as low as 24%. (In contrast, among the most beloved in year six of their presidencies were Eisenhower at 64%, Reagan at 63.5% and Clinton at 57%.) What struck the surveyors was Bush's 60% disapproval number, and the fact that 47% stronglydisapprove. That's like trying to climb out of a deep hole filled...
...rising nearly everywhere, and if there is one simple adage that many investment advisers live by, it's this: "When rates are high, stocks will die." Indeed, one of the most impressive?or scariest?aspects of the current global bull run is that it has come in the teeth of central-bank tightening, most importantly by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which could slow growth in the world's key economic locomotive. The Fed has increased a key short-term interest rate?the so-called Fed funds rate?15 times dating back to June 2004, and is widely expected to raise...
...Arctic, by paleontologists from the University of Chicago and several other institutions. Its nickame, for reasons that will become clear, is "fishapod"; it's more formally called Tiktaalik ("large fish in stream," in the local Inuit language). Fishapod dates from about 383 million years ago. It had the scales, teeth and gills of a fish, but also a big, curved rib cage that suggests the creature had lungs as well. The ribs interlock, moreover, unlike a fish's, implying they were able to bear fishapod's weight-an unnecessary trait in a fish. It had a neck-most unfishlike...