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...loafers bouncing in time to his step. He was in a festive mood, sporting salmon-colored trousers and a vernal polo. Making his way past his party guests, Braddock paused the stereo, which had been blaring Bon Jovi. An abrupt hush came over the well-dressed-but-getting-sloppier room. Taking a swig of Sam Adams, Braddock composed himself and declared, “Thank you all for coming here tonight. It’s nice to see all you nerdy bastards again!” The crowd of 30 let out a cheer: a cathartic mixture of gratitude, self...
...championship game, the Harvard men’s hockey team played well enough to earn the title of Boston champions, but came away with a hard-fought, tough-luck loss.Four nights later, in another close game against a ranked, heavily-favored opponent, the Crimson’s effort was sloppier. But this time, it was rewarded with a victory. “We kind of got away with one,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. “I felt we played better against [Boston College] in the loss, we just played harder for longer in that game...
...Wildcats (3-2) exactly 364 days after last year’s gripping 83-81 overtime victory. Like the previous encounter, last night’s game was close throughout and included 15 lead changes.This year’s match-up, however, was a slightly sloppier affair. The two teams combined for 44 turnovers.“It was a completely different game,” junior Evan Harris said. Amaker surprised many of those in attendance by changing up his starting lineup for the first time this year. Alongside sophomore Jeremy Lin, McGeary as well as freshmen Kyle Fitzgerald...
...Ultimately, of course, the birth-order debate will never be entirely settled. Family studies and the statistics they yield are cold and precise things, parsing human behavior down to decimal points and margins of error. But families are a good deal sloppier than that, a mishmash of competing needs and moods and clashing emotions, better understood by the people in the thick of them than by anyone standing outside. Yet millenniums of families would swear by the power of birth order to shape the adults we eventually become. Science may yet overturn the whole theory, but for now, the smart...
...SLOPPIER WITH YOUR SCHEDULE "If you keep a tight calendar and you're not a dentist or a hair stylist, try being looser and not packing as many things in," says Freedman. A less structured date book makes it easier to adapt to inevitable surprises and affords you freedom to just go with the flow...