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...depth of blue-state America's condescension. They assume that liberals sit around all day thinking about how much smarter or more sophisticated or more enlightened they are than social conservatives. Truth be told, most of the time liberals don't bother to think about social conservatives at all. Except at election time, when they suddenly become aware of them as some frightening, incomprehensible menace to their otherwise comfortably progressive society...
...might imagine, Enid, OK was even more shocked after news broke that Dell had won a Rhodes Scholarship. Although she feels honored, she recognizes that it tends to estrange her from others. “It’s sort of like getting into Harvard, except that the other people [the rejected] are classmates,” Dell says...
...Except that he’s a total goofball...
Stephen looks for the untold story—those of a WWII German soldier, Native American students and tenured female faculty. When he was a mere frosh, his older sister warned him against writing for the Crim—except for FM. We’re thankful for the exception and thrilled that this wickedly funny but thoughtful writer is now an editor...
...material objects spurred him to create and preside over the “Garbage Collector’s Club” during his high school years at Milton Academy. However, he was the sole member because, as Pasternack explains, “No one really knew about it except for my girlfriend,” he says. A far cry from his Harvard organizations, which are known across campus in part because of their off-beat natures...