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...teeny-bopper fluff—but, good grief, “boys will be strong and boys soldier on / but boys would be gone without warmth from a woman's good, good heart?” Does he really have so much trouble getting laid that he needs to write crap like this? This is by far the dumbest song he’s put out, and that includes “Your Body is a Wonderland,” which until now was the best proof out there that he’d stopped trying to think of worthwhile...
...drifted in a lovesick daze back to my room, where I sat down at my computer and tried to start writing. Something wasn’t working. How do you write a juicy exposé about a guy who once rescued a stray dog, used to secretly shovel snow out of his elderly neighbor’s driveway, and is genuinely interested in what everyone has to say? As his sister says, “Matt is one of the most real people you’ll ever meet,” and his commitment...
...Hasty Pudding was also Harvard’s first final club. Initiation rites, originally a force-feeding of pudding, became increasingly elaborate. During the 1873 “run,” or punch, the inductees, called “neophytes,” were forced to write long sets of poems and essays, including 50-page comparisons of the relative merits of a classical and mathematical education and another 50-pager on the relationship between chemistry and medicine. Shortly before punch night, the members burned the essays and poems and asked the neophytes to rewrite them...
...even once faculty malfeasance is dealt with, there is still the driving force of desperation, which seems well suited for the Type A personalities who fill Harvard’s Houses. (I will write much more about desperation in an upcoming column on my blockmates’ dating habits.) When time runs short, conscience and fear of reprisal are overwhelmed by the fear of poor grades and academic dishonesty results...
...years after he walked free from Sydney's Villawood detention center, Mohsen Sultany should be enjoying his freedom. But the 34-year-old, who fled Iran to avoid persecution for his political beliefs and is now studying surveying and writing poetry, has frequent nightmares and panic attacks; the verse he writes is always dark. He has been recognized as a refugee by the Australian government, but he can't shake free of the four years he spent in detention fighting for that recognition, or forget the attempted suicides, mental illness and mistreatment he saw there. He still becomes upset when...