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...started with angry old people. When Reno Dehareng's friend purchased a photo of an unsmiling elderly couple from a vintage store, the 33-year-old Brussels social worker had an idea. The ensuing website, Happiest People Ever ! (exclamation point purposely spaced), has become the latest addition to a growing Internet trend: blogs that catalog uncomfortable photos of strangers. (Awkward Family Photos and Goths in Hot Weather are two worthwhile examples...
...unsmiling, non-photogenic people have always made me laugh," Dehareng explained in an e-mail to TIME. Readers are invited to submit their own pictures, though in all likelihood, most photos on the site are probably found objects similar to the vintage-store snapshot. The concept is catching on. Happiest People Ever ! has been around for less than a month, but it's already getting about 6,000 hits a day. In part that's because the qualifications for entry are minimal. Anyone bored, lonely, grumpy or dejected (preferably all four) is welcome. Smeared makeup is a plus...
...fellow transfer students are some of the happiest people I know here, with an outside point of view and basis for comparison that allow for a heightened appreciation of all that Harvard has to offer. The student body as a whole benefits from this diversity of perspective that transfers bring in and suffers without it. Harvard must be able to admit that mistakes can be made: A student could have made a mistake not applying to or not choosing Harvard the first time around, and the admissions office could have made a mistake in not accepting a student the first...
...After completing a master’s degree from Tufts, Young began teaching English at Brookline High School, a period he recalls as the “the happiest days of my life.” After working on a curriculum assignment at a Brookline elementary and middle school, Young became drawn to the work he could do as a district administrator...
...absolutely certain why folks are in such a bad mood in Oklahoma, but they are. They're even gloomier in Mississippi. As for Kentucky? Just try and find a smile. Things are a whole lot cheerier, though, in Iowa, Nebraska and the Dakotas. And not surprisingly, the happiest state in the nation is sunny Hawaii...