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...calm. This year they see another depressing spate of depressions on the Atlantic horizon. Their latest forecast calls for 15 tropical storms, eight hurricanes and four strong hurricanes; a normal year sees about two-thirds of that activity. They might, of course, be proved right, but given their recent track record they also run the risk of crying wolf, which is part of the reason why the denizens of Florida and the rest of America's hurricane-prone coastline are largely shrugging. A Mason-Dixon poll of Atlantic coastline dwellers released this week reveals, astonishingly, that more than half...
...people like Natalie Wood and Judy Garland." He was taken with that part of the business. But he was smart enough to know he could cover that with a more offbeat intellectual style. That was his great gift, his ability to connect the more commercial with the abstract. His track record shows that his instinct was always to go with stars and large films. And at one point I said, "Why don't we just get a handheld and go out and do a little black-and-white?" I just don't think he was that interested in that...
...think Sydney's heart was more in those [commercial] films. His track record shows that his instinct was always to go to with stars and large films. And at one point, I said, "Why don't we just get a handheld and go out and do a little black-and-white?" I just don't think he was that interested in that. I think he was interested in larger scale films...
...Senate end up like Dodd and Biden, choosing a legislative, rather than leadership, path - satisfied with presiding over your own fiefdom as head of a committee, or sponsoring a major piece of legislation, rather than logging favors and whipping unruly members into line for votes. "The leadership track is one that is almost so all-consuming it's pretty hard to devote the attention to other committees that otherwise become a big part of any senator's life," said Tom Daschle, a former Democratic Senate majority leader and an Obama supporter...
...students should receive e-mails from their professors or TFs with a personal grade breakdown for the year, as well as a class-wide grade distribution on finals in larger classes. This would allow students to understand grades they haven’t necessarily kept track of, such as homework and midterm scores, as well as grades they often never see, such as those for final exams and section participation. Seeing what areas of the course they needed the most improvement in would help students learn more from the class...