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...University could even demonstrate its dissatisfaction with the policy by giving back the hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds it has received over the last 15 years and refuse to take any more in the future. Instead, by punishing ROTC cadets, Harvard is redirecting the responsibility unto its students, taking not only the most convenient, but also the least effective...
...everyday characters with absurd imaginations, the book reads like a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Handey’s narrator appears to be a middle-aged man with a penchant for his own “funny cowboy dance.” But the individual sketches are very much units unto themselves, preventing the book from having the virtuosic scope and insight of a “Cat’s Cradle” (not that it’s trying to be “Cat’s Cradle,” anyway). Handey’s dark and bizarre...
...than half of its daily schedule, affecting 273,000 passengers after the Federal Aviation Administration ordered the carrier to ground 300 planes for inspection - are the aviation equivalent of a traffic cop behind on his quota blanketing a street with tickets to avoid catching heat from his sergeant. Woe unto thee unlucky enough to double park...
Whether the students ate chips before or after sardines or chocolate, it made no difference. Rather, eating a potato chip was an experience unto itself. "It's the taste of that crackily, greasy, salty, crunchy, fried potato flavor - it's the consuming experience you're having and your attention collapses on this moment," says Gilbert...
...Americas. Says Chadwick, "There's a global turf war taking place in sport. It's not just about revenue generation, it's about reinforcing and preserving a competitive position." Scudamore didn't need reminding. "If we don't do it, another sport is going to come and do it unto us ... Or another football league is gonna go and do it around the the world first," he said. "There's a competitive drive that says the League can never stand still. We're either moving forward or backwards. Standing still doesn't work...