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...Spunky, limber, and slim, Merritt A. Moore ’10 is Shee’s partner in Tharp’s “Sinatra Suite.” Moore is a textbook ballerina, immediately identifiable by her impeccable posture and the way she elegantly executes even simple gestures like unwrapping a candybar...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen and Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Showing 'Grace' Under Fire | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other. St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God vs. Science | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

This proclivity for poor timing is not described in any textbook but is a phenomenon well known to psychologists. Two concepts explain the behavior. The first is recency bias, a tendency to place a disproportionately large emphasis on recent price performance without sufficiently weighing other relevant facts, including long-term performance and valuation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investing: Where Fools Rush In | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Micromotives and Macrobehavior” is essentially a textbook on behavior. It often reads like...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Micromotives and Macrobehavior | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...Instead, closing the book is no different from closing a textbook. The memories are still there, but the impression is hardly left...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: TOME RAIDER: Micromotives and Macrobehavior | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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