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...understand. How the fuck do you prove that you can’t sleep? How do you show someone that when you close your eyes, you can’t see anything but his face? How exactly do you demonstrate the guilt you feel when you lie to your roommates about where you are going just so you can find a private place...
...speech was eloquent,” McLaughlin said. “He focused on how he’s not going to lie down in his third term. He hit on the right things. What else do you want from a mayor...
Japan is as renowned for its xenophobia as its tea ceremony and flower arrangement, yet just as traditionally its writers desperately strive for a place on the wider literary playing fields abroad. They do so not only because that's where more money and greater fame lie but also because those who achieve translation are inordinately celebrated and esteemed at home. In their eagerness to secure that export seal of cultural approval they often try to style their characters according to Western fashions and modes. Or ensconce beneath their native kimonos Freudian explanations, Marxist interpretations and existential quests. But since...
...there will be many bumps on the road ahead as the team slowly gains experience. But judging from Harvard’s performance last night, at the end of that road should lie one impressive hockey team...
This disorder’s symptoms vary widely, needless to say, based on individual constitutions—but fortunately, the symptoms are easily recognizable to the trained (i.e., Harvard-educated) eye. For one thing, the Harvard Syndrome causes otherwise sincere people to lie, with almost pathological zeal, about their motives for not attending Harvard. The lies can range from the banal (“lousy undergrad education,” as my Legal Seafood chum insisted) to the breathtaking and patently unbelievable (“I really liked Yale better”). But however involved and intricate?...