Game Oh Thrones

Discrimination SCENARIO 6.1 The Antifat Motive When I was in ninth grade, I tried out for the cheerleading/pom-pom squad. I made it. I was thrilled. I was excited because even though I was a little overweight, I had been chosen. I went to practices, games, followed the routines, and tried to have fun. It was difficult sometimes because the others girls would make fun of me or call me names. Now during this time, I didn’t really lose or gain any weight. So here was the issue. My coach…

Sasha, his stepfather. „Hey, Artyom! That was a good sleep! Now get up! You‟ve been snoozing for seven hours in a row already . . . get up sleepyhead! We have guests coming!‟ Sukhoi‟s voice rang out. Artyom sat up in bed and stared at him, stunned. „Oh, Uncle Sash . . . You . . . Is everything OK with you?‟ he asked at last, after a minute of blinking. It was hard for him to overcome the urge to ask him if he was alive or not, and that was only because the fact of it was standing in…

With that, the spirit raised its voice and said solemnly: “One of you has been harboring thoughts of suicide today, and was about to prepare for the deed.” On hearing these words, a member of our circle uttered a startled cry and exclaimed: “It was I, oh God, it was I!” “Yes, it was you,” replied the spirit in a gentle tone. “You had hoped to escape a burden that you have borne for years by killing yourself and so finding rest. Today you have seen what kind of ‘rest’ you would have…

politics, C.S. Lewis sums it up in Mere Christianity better than I could: The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden — that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies,…

interest, designed to facilitate pay­ ments without the need for both parties in a transaction to have current accounts. To understand the power of these three innovations, first-year M B A students at Harvard Business School play a simplified money game. It begins with a notional central bank paying the 49 THE ASCENT OF MONEY professor $ 1 0 0 on behalf of the government, for which he has done some not very lucrative consulting. The professor takes the banknotes to a bank…

element. They are just flattering documentations of facts, ceremonies, characters, exalted ill their victories, in their symbols, in their ranges of splendour and command. Even their products were in simultaneous exaltation: architectures, courts, thrones, draperies, halberts, flags, armours, arms, badges, paintings of any kind. There is no ancient work without wreaths of advertising triumphs! Even today ~e have: the kings of pneumatics the princes of cars the kings of magnets the…

tercets, including one on Fortuna; several Carnival songs; three sonnets written to Giuliano dei Medici while he was imprisoned; and an Epigram for Piero Soderini, which perfectly sums up his attitude toward ‘‘good men’’ who do not know how to ‘‘play the game’’ of politics to win: That night when Piero Soderini died, His spirit went to the mouth of Hell. Pluto roared: ‘‘Why to Hell? Silly Spirit, Go up into Limbo with all the rest of the babies.’’50 Machiavelli’s last years were indeed…

different points in the process of knowledge communication. It is suggested that there exists an interlocking, interplaying cycle of various systems of relevances. Tefko Saracevic School of Library Science Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH 44106 * Work in part supported by NSF Grant GN-36085. A version of this article is planned to appear in: Voigt, M.J. and M.H. Harris. ed., Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 6, New York: Academic Press (Planned publication date:…