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Winter Break. Though it seems foolhardy not to work on the thesis--or at least write papers for your other classes--here again you must face the question of whether working is the right decision. You are likely to begin speaking in the plural: e.g., "The thesis and I went to Acapulco." Don't worry, this is normal enough, and you haven't even begun to know cohabitaton...
...next three weeks, I bragged about how well I did, weakly hiding behind the second-person plural and pop sociology. "It turns out we are so much smarter than we were in high school," I'd say. "Not only our vocabulary but also our reasoning skills have developed exponentially." With everyone I talked to, I seemed to strike some hidden nerve, revealing that not only do most people harbor a secret desire to retake the SATs but they also dislike being around...
...have a beenz in your virtual pocket, maybe you should. beenz (the trademarked word is both singular and plural) are a new kind of money that circulates exclusively on the Internet. There are no beenz coins or beenz bills. The only place you can earn beenz is on the Web, and the Web is the only place you can spend them. beenz are the product of a company called Beenz.com that hopes to make them the currency of the Internet, and they may be the future of cash as we know it. In five years, says Beenz.com founder Charles Cohen...
...Note the plural. Chase is the undisputed boss of The Sopranos, and its origins are highly personal. He says he based Tony Soprano's crafty, malevolent mother Livia (Nancy Marchand) on his own, now deceased mother. Yet this seamless series--more like a continuous movie--is the work of eight writers, including Chase, working from story arcs that he sketches each season. One of the writers, actor Michael Imperioli, not only is an accomplished screenwriter (Summer of Sam) but also plays a Soprano soldier who dreams of writing movies. Imperioli gave Chase a script on spec last season...