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Al Gore Cancels $1,200 Per Handshake Event In Copenhagen
I guess I need a "Lo, how the mighty have fallen" category.
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MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. (AP) - It will take some time to assess the costs and benefits of Jon Corzine's nine years as an elected official. But how much money his political career cost him is now known.
He spent $131 million of his own money on three runs for political office since 2000, including ...
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Jon Corzine
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Sweetbriar is going to suspend TIAA-Cref contributions for FIVE MONTHS. That's one ingredient to deal with a budget crisis.
We're talking about locally congruent measures. Everyone's in trouble, and everyone's troubles - like Tolstoy's unhappy families - are (somewhat) different.
I've ...
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I never grade for spelling on tests, except for proper names that I have insisted they must learn. But this sentence misses every technical term. The question is about a basilica:
You can see the naive leading up to the alter into the apps .
And overall it was a pretty good essay. BIG SIGH.
Stocks
Big Lots
Weirdly, the less social authority a profession enjoys, the more restrictive the barriers to entry and the more rigid the process of producing new producers tend to become. You can become a lawyer in three years, an M.D. in four years, and an M.D.-Ph.D. in six years, but the median time to a ...
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Look at this version of "This must be the place" that I found on YouTube!
Or not, if you don't like David Byrne.
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But life has taken a turn to all-meetings-all-the-time. I was in 4 actual ones last week, and had several long, impromptu discussions with colleagues. I need the break. The good news is that I'm pretty much up on my grading, so I can actually sleep and read some over Thanksgiving.
Committee ...
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BEIJING -- President Obama directly acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that the prison facility at Guantanamo Bay will not close by the January deadline he set, but he said he hoped to still achieve that goal sometime next year.
Obama refused, however, to set a new deadline.
In an ...
Government
Barack Obama
Rice Stadium - attendance defeat!
Originally uploaded by Michael Tinkler .
My university - 2,400 students in my day - has a stadium that seats 72,000. Yes, 3 zeros.
They have given up on ever filling the end zones.
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I am back to normal - sitting at my kitchen table, drinking coffee, and living virtually - but with the enormous advantage of knowing that I didn't waste my youth - just a fair amount of time I could have used even better than I did. Rice University was a fine place full of interesting people, ...
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at the lovely Hotel Za Za - formerly the Warwick! Someone once told me that Frank Sinatra thought the view of Rice and Herman Park from the top floor bar at the Warwick rivaled anything in the world. I'll see.
I need to dash - a carfull of ladies from my past is picking me up in moments to ...
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Canto XXVI
Canto XXVI begins with an apostrophe to decadent Florence and ends with the punishment of evil counsellors - so Florence's woes are place between the thieves and those who give bad advice, which seems fitting. The first tercet is splendidly horrible, with a reversal in the last ...
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Here's a report of an article about the Lewis Chessmen. These folks are suggesting that some (or most?) of the pieces were made for playing a Viking board game, Hnefatafl , which also involves a king and pawns. They also have some suggestions about the social conditions in the islands - that ...
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Canto XXV
In Canto XXV Dante stretches his powers of surreal description to rival Lucan and Ovid - and he challenges the two classical poets quite specifically. We are still in the Malebolgia of the Thieves, where snakes torment sinners. Dante sees three souls transformed, transmuted, ...
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I had forgotten.
I'm watching it tonight for the first time all the way through since it came out. It's AWFUL.
Maybe the worse is the ius prima noctis idiocy.... If you still believe in THAT one go buy this book, read it, and get back to me. Oh, while you're on the topic of 18th century ...
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Ok - I know there are no moving pictures, but sit back and listen. Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester and Tainted Love, a song of my youth - Weimar Style. Weimarstil?
