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...think we’re not even close to reaching our full potential.”JOSH ISNERIsner didn’t even know if he was going to compete this year. Then the captain stepped in.“D. J., who was a friend of mine in high school, convinced me to play,” Isner explained.Isner played in the St. John’s Invitational and the MacDonald Cup this fall, and he has occasionally struggled with wildness.“You have to grind through the bad stretches,” he said...
...Jimmy Corrigan,” the story of a lonely office drone with an abusive and fragmented family. While The New Yorker praised that “Jimmy Corrigan” was “viciously depressing” in the best sense of art, a friend of mine put it best: “Reading ‘Jimmy Corrigan’ made me want to lock myself in and gain 30 pounds...
...Guitar” sees Young wrestling with the problem of death—both physical and creative. The titular guitar performs double duty, serving as metaphor for both artist and art. Young sings, “This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / It’s mine to play for a while / This old guitar ain’t mine to keep / It’s only mine for a while,” as if to remind that both he and his artistic legacy are fleeting...
...circumstance in which I’d run for public office again. I feel very content with my life today, and I’m excited about what I’m going to be doing in the foreseeable future. Maybe if the next president is a friend of mine, I’ll become ambassador to the Bahamas...
...growing swarm of economics concentrators should be able to stem the staying-up-late stalemate. One of the fundamental tenets of their “science” is that humans—eventually—can learn from their mistakes. I hope my children can learn from mine. John N. Hastrup ’06 is a government concentrator in Dunster House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...