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Just for the record, Red, there's an "l"--Bloch.

I'll nominate Marc Bloch, a Jewish historian in France before World War II. He was a professor, and when the Nazis invaded he joined the resistance and was killed. He began, and was unable to complete, a work titled The Historian's Craft , which details a method to study history. A lot of what is in...

Is it really true that people are passive because they are demoralized? I would argue that they are passive because they are selfish by nature, and a solid majority of people are still quite comfortable and happy. They have food in their bellies, gas in their tanks, a roof over their heads, etc. Su...

Gotta love the T. I'm surprised that the conductor was able to stop; those Orange, Blue, and Red Line trains tend to fly into their stations, whereas the Green Line trains take it a little slower. Green line trains don't tend to be in sunken troughs; they tend to be on the same plane as the passeng...

Gotta love the T. I'm surprised that the conductor was able to stop; those Orange, Blue, and Red Line trains tend to fly into their stations, whereas the Green Line trains take it a little slower.

As the old example goes, Somalia is an anarchy with a lot of guns. I would love to see how long any of these people would survive there without the government services that make their comfortable lives possible. I bet if we took just one service--say, the DoT snowplowing roads away for just one wint...

As a side-note, does anyone know what the potential is for local, county, and university libraries to put their books online? It would be a massive project, but if they have the right to "loan" paper books, couldn't you do the same w/ e-books? Isn't that what the Google Books project is t...

(Assuming the above is 31)

32: Use the words "patriotism," "[Country] pride," and "I support [country]" as often as possible, and accuse your opponent of lacking them.

From CNN : (CNN) -- Scientists at NASA have discovered a nearly invisible ring around Saturn -- one so large that it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a massive, nearly invisible ring around Saturn. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted a massive...

HI 307 History of War
HI 338 History of Germany 1914-Present
PO 512 Informal Political Processes
LG 111 First-Semester German
MU 191 Marching Band
MU 193 Pep Band

First semester sophomore year. . . fun stuff.

My condolences, Aly. I hope that you're able to find comfort soon.

I'm hoping that Tom Brady is back in shape this year. . . and doesn't get injured in the first game AGAIN.

Also, it's a good thing the Bills are playing the hall of fame game. Wouldn't want a professional team getting any injuries that early in the season.

I currently use Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue.

Law enforcement investigations can involve a pretty wide array of disciplines. A little bit of psychology, finance, science, history, and engineering depending on what you're investigating. On a similar track, archaeology. A comprehensive site study draws from several fields, both historical and ex...

I am so glad that I go to school in the city. The worst we get are the LaRouchers and Greenpeace. I think I've seen maybe, maybe one street preacher on campus. Maybe one or two more in all of Boston. We're in a rather liberal area, though, so take that as you will.

Nitram--all my best wishes. Get better soon, man.

An absurdly fancy-looking and imposing courthouse. Say what you will about them damned Yankees, but they do make cool-looking government buildings. Well, we did, anyway. We let the modernists sell us a bill of goods after the Second World War. Now they look like this: http://img36.imageshack.us/img...

I absolutely, positively, cannot wait for this game.

And if they fuck up my childhood memories. . . I will be extremely, shall we say, upset.

Just got a new HP Compaq 8510w Mobile Workstation. Some specs: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processer Intel Centrino with Santa Rosa update chipset NVidia Quadro 570M graphics card with 512MB Cache 2GB Ram 15.4" monitor Lightscribe DVD R/W optical drive 3/3/3 Warranted--Parts/Labor/Onsite 160GB 7200...

Simply fantastic artwork, Kodiak. Pass along the word from me, would you?

Stuart, I can't believe I missed this thread for so long.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for giving me my fix back. Loving it so far.

They're. They are. Figure it out.

On the trailer--I really hope they don't fuck up this franchise. Toy Story was such a great movie, and Toy Story 2 was great as well. Hopefully, being Pixar, this will be of some quality.

Worked with an asshole recently--a self-styled electrician. I've been working in theaters for about 5 years now and trained by some of the best techies around, so I've got a pretty good handle on what I'm doing. Nevertheless, as a student employee and not a "professional," I still get stup...

Here at BU, it's tradition to go to the statue of Harry Agganis outside of the hockey arena and squeeze one of his ass cheeks for good luck on exams. If you walk across the seal in Marsh Plaza, you'll supposedly never graduate from BU. After each and every hockey game we win, the pep band (a group o...

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