Outgoing Senior Vice President Anthony Caneris said in his farewell speech that sometimes administrators have to break the rules in order to successfully manage a university.
I decided to humor my older brother during the break and sat down to watch American Idol. Before you send me off to a nunnery as if I were an unwed young maiden with child, I remembered to leave my Man-Badge and Man-Gun in my room so that I could watch the show without having to deny it and eventually turn them both in to the Man Association of Nevada, widely regarded as the manliest group in the manliest state in the Union.
I'm told how desirable sexual experience is in a dating partner. One should wear the number of people they've hooked up with or bases they have reached as a badge of honor, or write them down on their dating resume. It's best to experiment and "keep your options open" rather than limit yourself to one person.
As an engineer, it is rather embarrassing for me to admit that I have no idea how a battery works. My current (that's not a pun) understanding is that under certain conditions, atoms can release electrons, which are apparently both waves and particles. To me, that means they look like yellow ping pong balls that wiggle around a little.
At the end of Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks' indispensable account of our military blundering in Iraq, Ricks offers four possible scenarios for the years ahead. The best-case scenario, as he puts it, would be to "keep a lid" on the present insurgency that would limit its "reach and intensity.
