…United Kingdom was battling Islamic fundamentalists and no longer, for instance, Irish militants, the arrested suspects invariably had Muslim names. This would turn out to be one of the strongest…
…employers who place want ads were less likely to respond to resumes from people with African-American sounding names. But in some ways the OkCupid result is even more depressing than…
…the road. It’s our responsibility. –Dan A quick glance at the names on these comments indicates an unsurprising fact: women tend to think they are better (22 of 32 who…
…references to MONTY n. and MONTE n.1, are still more speculative. Earlier currency is app. implied by the following names of fish and chip shops: 1982 Yellow Pages: Manchester North…
A number of countries have passed naming laws, forbidding citizens from giving their kids certain types of names, but North Korea’s new naming law is more meaningful. The government has…
…certainly hold with respect to tattooing the names of any of my ex-girlfriends on my chest. So what makes tattoos so popular? One possibility is that people just enjoy them…
…businessperson, do you regularly engage those who wish to do you harm? If you are an intellectual, do you regularly sit down with those who wish to call you names?…
…1976 book about ‘You Bet Your Life.’ Bernie had an astonishing memory, as well as a chart with all the contestants’ names, how much they won and what the secret…
…Bureau of Economic Research and I will name no names but a Yale economist [Nalebuff] and a Yale law school professor [Ayres] have advised the world that when you are…
…just with a different set of players, and then Landis switched the names. Further convincing me that there is likely to be truth to what Landis says are personal conversations…
…will managers of porn sites want to use these domain names? If they believe the ensnarement argument, it would be a bad strategy for them to adopt the .xxx suffix….
…here from time to time. (One assumes that in order to be any use at all, the “live” data would have to be anonymized, so the bit about Muslim names…
…to easily win primaries and get their names on the ballot for November. Complaints about spurious candidates have cropped up often before, though never involving an entire roster of candidates…
…and goggles, leaving customers plenty frustrated. In a bid to allow you some much-needed release, as well as blacken the airlines’ names so that they’ll seize the most loathed industry…
…by telephone and provided her with names and telephone numbers of other legal services provides in the area who might take her case.”) The claimants who were offered representation were…
…My beloved UCLA School of Public Affairs just received a terrifically generous gift from Meyer and Renee Luskin, whose names will from this point forward grace our school and our…
…they used to flag female names as potential fraud, since an angry mother or wife so often called to demand a refund), demographic information from web analytics services, and demographic…
…to use an image. At first blush, that might seem odd. We usually think of trademarks as symbols or words or names that identify products as coming from a particular…
…plants take years and years to construct, if they open at all. “Behind schedule” and “cost overrun” seem to be nuclear power’s middle names. The political, economic, and environmental impacts…
…of the more strict, if not bizarre, laws regulating the retail sales of booze. Wine and spirits are sold only by state-owned stores, which don’t even have names; they’re designated…
…to coincide with the cut-off score for passing the exam. Poland employs a fairly elaborate system to avoid bias and grade inflation: removing students’ names from the exams, distributing them…
…is filled with names you know: Suzuki’s current chairman and CEO, 81 year-old Osamu Suzuki, is an adopted son — the fourth one in fact — to run the company….
…the category is dominated by well-known vehicles, generally starring famous names (for example, Jude Law in Hamlet, and Al Pacino in The Merchant of Venice). Again, I want to emphasize…
(Digital Vision) It was great to see some familiar names on this year’s list of MacArthur “genius” awards. They include Roland Fryer of Harvard, who has shown up many times…
…of estimates to provide a more accurate way to measure same-sex couple households. The revised figures were developed by using an index of names to re-estimate the number of same-sex…
…the start of each school year, it comes via a password-protected Excel spreadsheet. Keep in mind this list doesn’t contain Social Security numbers or bank information — just names, addresses,…
…most effective cessation measure would be to publish a list of the names of the more than 250 people killed by smoking-related disease each day in Britain. He writes: “Any…
…economics of the NBA, and what role he is playing at the negotiating table. Here are a few highlights: NBA.com: People are familiar with a lot of the names and…
…the effect of connecting them, over the long-term, to art that they otherwise sold. For example, some European countries give artists the right to have their names associated with their…
…in trouble off the field. Unfortunately, you don’t have to think very hard to come up with a lot of big names from the recent past: Michael Vick, Ben Roethlisberger,…