He was late arriving and slow getting past the hand-shakers and back-slappers, but President Obama’s State of the Union Address was a new slant on an old trope, at times uplifting (“we do big things”) and at other times evasive
Harvard and Google got married (NY Times article, Fri Dec 17) and have given birth to a database containing all the words in all the books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese and Russian. You—yes
Many presenters begin their talks like this: “I’d like to take this opportunity to talk a little bit about…” Don’t do this. First of all, what you would like to do at that particular moment is of considerably less interest