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...intermaxillary motion, unable to chew and unable to eat real food, that the younger Grass resonated so powerfully with me. There was a confluence between my real life and his life as he retold it. He was in an American prisoner of war camp, taking a cooking class wherein they had no food to prepare, starving. I, too, was suffering hunger pains, and was engrossed in the feasts he was taught to conjure out of thin air. I, just like him, could do no more than dream of delectable chewables, constrained as I was to mush for weeks. And there...
...review of makers, breakers and Fixers, the latest "Blokes and Sheds" book by Mark Thomson [Aug. 6]. In pride of place on the door to my shed is a Shed Code of Practice from woodworkforums.com, which states: "The purpose of a shed is to provide an environment and territory wherein a bloke has total and complete dominion and control and is therefore happy." And: "A bloke shall never have enough tools." Gordon Bidgood, Tyabb, Victoria...
Harvard has, in recent years, tumbled from the lofty climes of dynasticism to rude meritocracy. Apparently, whoever slaves over each page of text with the most ardor wins. Only the campus’s social scene maintains the admirable vestiges of ages past, wherein an arbitrary elite is permitted to exclude undesirables, leaving them to commiserate in the street over the drunken, menacing friends they might have made. The latest permutation of this base competitive construct is CEB Risk, bringing all the cold calculation of war to an already-cutthroat Cambridge...
...possess extenuating circumstances in order to be admitted; second, it mandates that the average AI of a given year’s aggregate recruiting class must fall within one standard deviation of the mean AI of the student body; and, third, it places restrictions on the biggest sport, football, wherein AI ranges for each individual school are divided into four “bands” that cap the number of allowable players at each numerical level, ascending in size from bottom...
...investigators have pulled out one e-mail from the thousands provided by Justice wherein a staffer for Senate Republican Pete Domenici e-mails a Rove Deputy, Scott Jennings, the White House legislative liason, Candida Wolff, and someone identified only by their e-mail address kr@gwbush.com. The content of the e-mail itself is non-controversial--it refers to Domenici's suggestions for a replacement U.S. Attorney, standard practice in such appointments. But inclusion of the outside e-mail account opens the door for questioning Sampson on the use of such accounts by the White House and other administration officials...