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Zuckerberg and Co. have made constantly checking Facebook more vital than ever with the new “Status” feature. Let Fifteen Minutes clue you in on 15 “status” entries that will make you cool and popular with the obsessive compulsive set. John Harvard is... 1) ...with your mom. 2) ...right behind you. 3) ...wishing I could quit you! 4) ...eating an entire wheel of cheese. 5) ...working on Domna’s presidential campaign. 6) ...climbing the dragon phallus. 7) ...trapped between the moving bookshelves in Widener. 8) ...having...
Such determination to get the full story was standard practice at the Courier. Gale, covering state and local politics from her bureau in Tuskegee, relied on a network of informants who were eventually willing to feed her vital tips. One of her informants revealed vote-tampering methods that white officials were using when black residents tried to vote...
...stereotypes should be wary—her focus on such texts as recipes serves not to probe the mundane; rather, this kind of inquiry into the experience of individuals (a person, a text) is rich and informative in a way that certain traditional research lacks. She also brings a vital realism to her scholarship, saying wryly that she always remembers being told that “there are worse things that can be done to a people than teaching them English.” Sen is full of remarkable anecdotes, from how Worcestershire sauce was originally an Indian chutney...
...letter written to Donald R. Knauss, president of Coca-Cola North America, the university’s Executive Vice President and CFO Timothy P. Slottow cited Coke’s cooperation with independent investigations by the United Nations’ International Labor Organization (ILO) as vital to Michigan’s decision...
...time for newspapers to make their deadlines and TV cameras to capture the images, which the Berlusconi-owned TG5 news program broadcast live, and replayed the morning after. All of the hoopla came with just a minuscule margin of victory in the Lower House, and the race for the vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate by two votes). Prodi?s appearance...