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Year after year, the sorting hat works its magic. The Harvard supplement to the Common Application asks applicants for their fields of study, giving them seven options. Leaving aside the two percent or so each year who brazenly thumb their noses at Byerly Hall and do not indicate a field of study, the application process, like the Hogwarts sorting hat of Harry Potter fame, divides up the class upon entry...
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...wrote in his autobiography. Instead, the French fireman, then 19, was wrenched back to life again and again by doctors, machines and good intentions. After nine months in a coma and 15 more as a mute, nearly blind quadriplegic (he wrote his memoir by using small movements of one thumb), Humbert pleaded with his mother - and President Jacques Chirac - to help him die. On Sept. 26, he got his wish, and France exhaled a sad sigh of relief. Now the nation is again holding its breath. Humbert's mother awaits indictment for attempted poisoning, punishable by up to five years...
...upshot is probably the most useful tool for shoppers, scholars and bibliophiles ever invented. In fact, there's no reason why you can't use the service to search books you already have on your shelves. No matter how fast you try to thumb to and from the index pages, Amazon's computers can do it faster. Now you know how Garry Kasparov felt when he was beaten by a chess program...
...from airports on his way to make speeches on behalf of the nuclear freeze movement. The overriding purpose of these phone calls was to get his dressing into a bottle, a bottle bearing the Newman's Own name on a proper label, a bottle that would allow us to thumb our noses at the naysayers. Paul had always been perverse about complacency. It was his theory that he had to keep things off balance or it's finito. That's why he took up racing cars when they said, Not when you're 47 years old, you out of your...