By Phil Hecken
The Pro Bowl (tonight, 7:20pm EST, ESPN) hasn’t always sucked. But now it does, and even the most avid of Uni Watchers will be hard pressed to call this event a “must see.”
If you actually care to watch, today (tonight actually) the 2010 NFL Pro Bowl takes place in Hawaii…er, Miami, the [...]
Note: “Hall” (?) in the article below is traditionally found in the name of special-interest organizations. In overseas Chinese communities, “tong” is the translation used and, like the two Haidian examples, their self-protection activities often have connections to crime and gang violence.
In June, Beijing media reported on the “Hall of Princes” gang, which consisted of [...]
Its gameday down in Mobile, Alabama and this is the final live action we will see when it comes to some of the top prospects in the nation. It has been a great week and a very useful tool in the process of evaluating these future NFL players by seeing how they perform against [...]
It was not the end. It was not yet the end. After asking for the second time, I finally obtained approval to present the birthday surprises as a project for Olin Exposition 2009. Most other freshmen were presenting their Design Nature swimmer projects or their Modeling and Simulation project for Expo, but I—as usual—did not [...]
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The Chinese Shell Game
By Peter Hannaford on 1.21.10 @ 6:07AM
Many Chinese manufacturers of consumer products are so obsessed
with shoveling products out the door that they cut dangerous
corners in order to keep their selling prices down. First it was
[...]
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Rick Moody is the author of The Ice Storm. He lives on Long Island and co-founded the Young Lions Book Award at the New York Public Library.
Ernest Hemingway famously said of Mark Twain’s legacy that “we all of us came out from under Huck Finn’s skirts.” [...]
J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, and Nine Stories, is dead at the age of ninety-one. His son confirmed that he died of natural causes.
As I wrote last June, since its publication in 1951, Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye has been the favored bildungsroman novel of the American teen. [...]
