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A master’s in “Beatles”?
I saved on Sunday and finally read today this piece by Allan Kozinn. Here’s the money shot: “Studying the Beatles seriously inevitably brings together an enormous amount of material, certainly enough to push the limits of a four-semester program. To understand the group’s prehistory, for one thing, students will have…
Game changers: Zopa
You think you have it tough. How about banks? People are worried about nationalization. What’s the worry? Banks aren’t lending anyway. Zopa is. It’s a bank that could exist only on the Internet. Normal people putting up money for normal people interested in borrowing. And “over the last 12 months…
Roy Williams and Rick Reilly
I used to be a big college basketball fan. Well, a big UNC basketball fan. Crazy. Something made me stop and see things a bit differently. Now when people ask me if I’m a Tar Heel fan, I usually paraphrase a line from a Woody Allen film about letting 20-year-old…
Cooking up something good
Last night’s NBC Nightly News featured a segment on a chef who is teaching inner-city kids how to be masters of the kitchen. It’s another good example of how all kinds of folks can make a contribution to our education system, both inside and outside the schools. It also reminded…
I really gotta get out more
If anything will inspire you to get out of the country—or, at the very least, out of the house—it’s this. More info at wherethehellismatt.com.