Archive for 2007
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Dave Barry’s Year in Review. An Inconvenient Year
Dave Barry is still funny. Personally, I’m grateful for his annual gift guides and year in reviews – they are welcome respites from his replacement: the erratic, but occasionally humorous Gene Weingarten. One of my favorite lines:
On a more ominous nuclear note, President Bush warns Iran that it is, quote, “awfully close to Iraq, if you look at a map, which I have.”The Economist. Beauty and Success Go Together
Should the ugly go into job interviews with bags over their heads?
Another controversial, yet compelling article from the anonymous experts at the London-based Economist. They reason more beautiful people receive more opportunity, and the ugly are inherently biased against in many facets of life while remaining one of the last groups of people for which it is legal to discriminate against.
Happy New Year from the EIC
Partying at the Parthenon.
Good morning and Happy New Year to everyone.
The EIC looks forward to a prosperous year of existence in 2008,with your continued readership and feedback. To readers, thank you very much for making this a very successful year beyond our wildest dreams. We appreciate your comments and visits.
Readers, what are your resolutions for this new year? Are you particularly excited, sad, or even angry that 2007 is gone? Feel free to post anything.
Best of 2007
Unless you’ve been living in a vacuum for the past few weeks, you can probably attest (and lament) the deluge of year-end stories capping the top 10 moments, headlines, and stories of the year. Even Hurricane Nation did it.
But enough of the media and pundits. What do you think?
My personal favorite moments of the year included the Obama Girl videos surfacing on YouTube and Stephen Colbert announcing his candidacy for President. MSNBC has their own succinct, month by month list, recounting the top pop culture events of the year.
We want to hear your opinion, or farewell on year 2007. Feel free to share your your personal top 10 lists below and anything else below. What did you like and what didn’t you like about the year that brought you the iPhone, unrelenting Middle East violence, and the final Harry Potter installment?
New endings and old beginnings
A year catching up on you
With most of my folks in the county, my Christmas break has never been one marked by travel – just a day on the town – and a week to myself devoted to catching up with what I want to do. I believe just enough that I am fiercely protective of my time to be dismayed by the realization of how much of it is beyond my control. My low-pulse and blood-pressure belie weeks of frustration that climax neatly before our allotted breaks. I’ve found a much better indicator to be the amount of paper stacked on my desk and the length between e-mail responses. Case in point: my desk has a two-month old copy of the New York Review of Books and a month-old e-mail to finish.
Inevitably, all the papers, magazines, and e-mails are taken care of – shredded, preferably – leaving me with the prospect of thinking back on another year gone and looking forward to another year ahead: Read the rest of this entry »
Shaj Mathew
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