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Want to learn about the way the human brain works? Don't open up a textbook. Just lift the hood of your...
...first twenty minutes was textbook domination by the Crimson (2-0-0, 2-0-0 ECAC), as it scored four goals on 19 shots against an outmatched goaltender in Yale's Todd Sullivan...
Recent events in Georgia provide a textbook case of this strategy. The devastating defeat that Abkhazian rebels dealt to Georgian troops in September would have been impossible without support from Russia's army. Subsequently, the Georgian leader, Eduard Shevardnadze, was forced to beg Yeltsin for membership in the C.I.S. The endgame is obvious: a bilateral treaty providing Russia's military with permanent bases in Georgia, including control over its strategic Black Sea coast...
...patrol officers' case is another textbook example of a union's serving no one's interest but its own and the staff's falling sucker to pathetic advertising...
...best stories in this book involve culture shock. Sometimes the shock is Merrill's, as when Dr. Detre explains that an Italian's repeated "Ti voglio bene" had meant not "I wish you well" (as it would in a textbook) but "I love you." At other times the culture shock is ours. Merrill inhabited, when he chose, both the inaccessible world of the super-rich (James Merrill's much-married father, Charles Merrill, helped found Merrill Lynch) and the world of young, well-educated gay men long before either Stonewall or AIDS. When Charles first suspected that James...