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...members of one final club had less than a hoot at a Thursday punch event when the boat was too small for everyone to bring a date. Punches could bring a friend, but members spent the night cuddling with their own personal bottles of bubbly. This marked the first time in Owl history that their dates were dumber than they were. In other watery news, a few inhabitants of a certain river house were finally able to move back into their sewage-ravaged rooms, which, according to some, still reek. Speaking of stink, The Advocate (also known...
...counted the number of days that I’ve spent with the twins since they were born that day in January three years ago. Eighty-three.Eighty-three! Yeah, that’s still way too many smelly diapers and messy spills. But it’s also too many skipped birthdays and a thousand missed firsts. I couldn’t even find a picture of me with the twins for this Endpaper! Overachievers are loathe to admit to faults, but I am ready to admit this: I am a bad big sister...
...Throughout college, I have spent every summer abroad, going home to Windsor, Ontario for just a week or two at the beginning or the end of the summer. I’ve used most spring breaks and intersessions for trips with student groups and friends. And I’ve made my choices with the full knowledge that I was sacrificing time with my family for time for myself. Being the eldest of seven siblings means that I’ve been doing a lot of ignoring lately. But the nearly 20-year age gap between Adam and Mariam...
...spent enough time with them to see how their personalities have developed. Adam is easily distracted, while Mariam could flip through the pages of a book forever. Mariam speaks in short, complete sentences while Adam mimics adult conversation—complete with wild gesticulations and even pregnant pauses—all while failing to utter a single intelligible word. (The men in my family...what...
...present day to establish how gentler moments of Skinner’s childhood influenced him. Romance enters the film when Skinner becomes reacquainted with the French countryside, his neighbors, and a hard-hearted local girl named Fanny. The flashbacks focus on the moments that young Max (Freddie Highmore) spent at his Uncle Henry’s house. Finney captures all the subtleties of the character, and plays Uncle Henry loveably. Also remarkable is Archie Panjabi, who plays Max’s secretary, Gemma. Panjabi takes the sexy-secretary stock character to a new level by keeping the business...