January 2011
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“Cornell in 2010 was like Nineties-era Robert Downey Jr., fluctuating between...”
– IvyGate’s Year in Review: 2010 > Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, year in review | IvyGate (via 4907)
December 2010
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Year's Best
Some day I will be better remembered.
- President Grover Cleveland
2010 was an odd and embittering year. Was it a good year? No, too much plain dysfunction lay about for this to be a truly good year. However, the year’s events fell short of the dire expectations that I entertained at the end of 2009. It seems much of the world, both Left and Right, has opted for the black flag and...
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“No one could get to her. Crown Heights was not plowed, and no medical aid came...”
– Mother of a 22-year-old student mother whose newly born baby had died by the time local EMTs arrived ten hours late due to snow-clogged streets in NYC.
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Woody Allen on why an iPhone isn't a computer
MTV: Do you use a computer for anything?
Woody Allen: No. I don't own a computer. I write in longhand, and then I type it up on my Olympia portable typewriter, which I've used since I was 16 years old. It's the same typewriter, and I've typed every single thing I've ever written on it. It works just fine. You wouldn't know that I didn't buy it yesterday.
MTV: So no iPhone or iPod?
Woody Allen: I have an iPhone. Someone put in all my New Orleans jazz music on it so when I go away on a trip I don't have to carry a lot of stuff with me and I can still sit in my hotel room with earphones and practice.
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“In 1998, when Jiang Zemin, then the president, announced plans to bolster higher...”
– The New York Times
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Youth, Race, and Ambition in Georgia Politics
If the 2010 elections stand as a political earthquake then the ground is still shaking in Georgia.
Democrats were routed in elections for federal and state offices in Georgia and since the election seven state legislators have switched affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican party to maintain relevance, influence, and political viability going into 2012.
The latest switcher? Ashley...
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WatchA neat promo video for Rotterdam - an emerging mecca for architecture and design.