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...teach Swahili, it’s about passion, not dough, for Pillsbury and her fellow TFs. Though it might sound cliché, the TFs say it’s rewarding enough to share their knowledge with their peers.“Sometimes it’s a little weird if you see someone at a party or something, but you become friends and it’s fine,” says Pillsbury. “It’s fine to be friends with your students...

Author: By Charles R. Melvoin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hakuna Matata! | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...philosophy, symbolic logic, computers, genetics, paradoxes, palindromes and Zen koans among many, many other things. Most of it went way over my head--my precocious older sister, who later became a mathematician, and even later a sculptor, was the real target audience--but it was playfully written and deeply weird and off-the-charts smart and generally just the thing for a household of pretentious, alienated adolescents to chew on. My siblings and I weren't especially close, but we always had that book in common: it was our secret shared nerd bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Mathemagical Thinking | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...That's a weird question. I am African American, so whatever experience I am going through is the African-American experience. If I decided to go to Antarctica and raise polar bears, it's still the African-American experience. Should I lift people up? Everyone, black or white, should feel a responsibility to help others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Chris Rock | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...like two plays within one. The first act is amazing, because there’s all this build up and then there’s an assassination. The second act, though, is just action-packed, and there’s so much irony within it. It’s weird because—not to play on words or anything—but there’s a lot of backstabbing going on in the first act and then a lot of front-stabbing going on in the second act. “Julius Caesar” runs from March...

Author: By Kimberly B. Kargman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: SPOTLIGHT: Robert D. Salas '08 & Winter Mead III '08 | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...Stooges’ first release in 30-odd years, “The Weirdness,” lives up to its name—it’s a little weird. Once known as the forerunners of punk, the band seems—on first listen—to have absorbed the musical styles of just about every trend-setting artist of the last two decades. Filled with fast beats and poppy guitar melodies, “The Weirdness,” while maintaining the key elements of the band’s sound, has a distinctly modern feel...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Stooges | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

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