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...very least, 2006 managed to end on an amusing note as a couple of tired and emotional journalists fought to personify the industry’s most ubiquitous trait: self-importance. “Fought,” because that’s exactly what the two of them did, made all the better by the fact that they scuffled on stage at the country’s annual Walkley awards for journalism, an event deemed so important it is beamed live nationally on free-to-air television...
...Paris police inspector, Pascal Popil, has been interested in this boy for five years, and is convinced he has recently murdered a half-dozen men. Yet Popil does not charge him with any of these killings. No, the inspector intuits in the boy a trait stronger and stranger than homicidal brutality: a remoteness from fellow feeling."I don't want a conviction," Popil says, "I want him declared insane. In an asylum they can study him and try to find out what he is.... There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word...
...business leaders on which languages to teach (plans for Mandarin were dropped for lack of classroom space) and which skills and disciplines. "No. 1 was technology," she recalls. Even first-graders at Stanford begin to use PowerPoint and Internet tools. "Exposure to world cultures was also an important trait cited by the executives," says Kodama, so that instead of circling back to the Pilgrims and Indians every autumn, children at Stanford do social-studies units on Asia, Africa, Australia, Mexico and South America. Students actively apply the lessons in foreign language and culture by video-conferencing with sister schools...
Sexiest physical trait: My lips...
...totally kidding). Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: Those nuns were pregnant when I got here! Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: Dad, this is making me uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Soccer ball, my father’s firearms. Sexiest physical trait: My RAZR, the soaring eagle tattoo across my chest. Favorite part about Harvard: Clifton Dawson. Describe yourself in three words: Scholar, lover, UC vice-presidential candidate. In 15 minutes you are: Trying to make friends. In 15 years you are: Buying friends...