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Fetterman: “We didn’t have that many nerds. We didn’t even have many studious people...
McClendon said that the media presence, and Summers’ studious efforts to work the crowd, made the party seem slightly “canned,” although she still had a good time...
...Pusey minister in the Memorial Church, ushers me into his cozy Mem Church office and waves me toward the plush couch. He settles himself in the chair opposite me, calmly folds his hands in his lap and fixes me with a pensive gaze. I try my best to look studious and upstanding as I explain to him my situation. I’m writing a personal narrative, I begin. Pause. Well, I don’t really understand religion, I admit. Sometimes, I even have a hard time relating to very religious people...
...athletic activities were limited to playing innocuous, undemanding games of badminton or kickball. My parents pushed us to read and calculate, not to throw and run. My older brother erected a basketball hoop in our driveway that went unused after a year of initial excitement, and my brilliant, studious sister preferred the newspaper or a Jane Austen novel to a game of basketball or tennis. Both siblings ultimately turned out swell—I, in fact, became the black sheep of the family after they both graduated from med school. But while academics were our “thing...
...Darius Mehrjui's Iranian film Bemani tells of three women in circumstances that are extreme but not, alas, unusual: an Iraqi who befriends an Iranian soldier and is beheaded by her outraged father; a studious Iranian who doesn't tell her father she's taking pre-med courses and is beaten by him; a third girl hit by her father because she chatted with a shepherd, then forced into a loveless marriage with a rich man who will pay her family's rent. The last two women set themselves on fire in protest and despair. Yet the film can also...