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Those who withhold their Harvard affiliation may be doing it out of more than self-conscious modesty. Just ask Ryan P. Lannon ’05. “I have roommates that tell girls, ‘I go to B.U., I go to B.C.,’ just so the girls think they’re more social, more normal,” he says. Lannon says he doesn’t do that, but has experienced multiple negative repercussions from telling people he goes to Harvard...
...certain point you say to yourself, Good God, if it quacks like a duck and it walks like a duck, there’s a very good chance that it is a duck, and so there could be actually some unconscious or conscious elements at work here, and I would leave that up to the soul of Summers himself...
...flow doesn't stop at the back door. Patios and decks once performed like seasonal attractions that closed up shop when the leaves fell. But there is now a desire to connect with the outside that is expressing itself in more conscious design for indoor-outdoor living. The deck becomes another room, one without walls, without a roof. So naturally it too needs to be part of the flow. And it has to be outfitted with a killer barbecue and outdoor fireplace. Even the bathroom is being extended via enclosed outdoor showers...
...continues to mine two inexhaustible resources: the DC Comics library and the young male appetite for hot superheroines. The Huntress (Batman and Catwoman's daughter), wheelchair-bound Oracle and psychic Dinah fight crime while looking slick and zinging the requisite self-conscious jokes ("Is your spider-sense tingling?" one Bird needles another). But flat performances and stock comic-book story lines keep Birds grounded...
...live in a trailer means to be morally and intellectually vacuous, to be crude and uneducated and to have extremely poor personal hygiene. The white trash parties are not especially appalling or involved. In fact, like many social events round these parts, they’re more self-conscious and unenthused than audacious. Still, why have so few Harvard students, usually quick to protest prejudice, questioned the appropriateness of perpetuating such obviously offensive stereotypes...