If Williams College beats Amherst, its biggest rival, in football this afternoon, Roger St. Pierre will draw his shop's blinds and lay out about 80 cigars.
This is where our blind spot lies: success nominally attributed to the beneficial effects of education, especially graduating from college, is in truth largely a result of factors determined long before children even enter school.
The clue to this blind spot lies in the following sentence: "The on-demand economy is unlikely to be a happy experience for people who value stability more than flexibility: middle-aged professionals with children to educate and mortgages to pay".
He was trembling and his head was drumming until he was deaf and blind, but he lay down flat on the earth on his side, drew the barrel under his chin and fumbled for the trigger with his great toe.
According to Gu's trial, Heywood was made to swallow a lethal dose of rat poison as he lay blind drunk on a bed at the Lucky Holiday hotel in Chongqing, the vast city run by Bo Xilai.
"Under the current legislation the only enforcement option for police, when confronted with simple possession of cannabis, is either to turn a blind eye or lay charges," association president Jim Chu said at the time.
How much easier, she says, to just lock her bedroom door, close her blinds and lie in her bed in the darkness.
He was found lying blind drunk on the carpet.
The novel takes the form of a mother's long flashback as she lies, blind, on her deathbed.
