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...choosing to attend Harvard, we have all implicitly made that decision to put adult life on hold. Most of my high school classmates at other universities now live in apartments and pay their own bills. Explaining my own living situation comes off a little humorous at times; well, I live in a House—no, not like a sorority house—like, um, the Houses in Harry Potter. Without having to worry about grocery shopping or dividing up rent, Harvard students are able to devote almost all their energy to their academics and extracurriculars. This isn?...
Whether bitter or sweetened, the tea is winning admirers. According to the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, roughly 1 in 5 adult Americans identifies with the Tea Party movement, which scored its first major victory last month when Republican Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat long held by the late Democrat Ted Kennedy. Brown's promises to bolster U.S. defenses against terrorists and block Obama's health care reforms gave him a blinding Tea Party aura, the glow of which sent fear through the Administration and fried the circuits of Congress. But you can no more trace that...
...that they were not seeking to change a recipe that has thus far proved successful for the Tea Partyers, who have made it very clear that they don't want to be tied to any particular party or existing movement. "This is not meant to in any way suggest adult supervision," says Bozell. "That's condescending. This is meant to give some form of structure to all of this bursting energy that's out there." And while several conservatives said they believed Tea Partyers would naturally align under the conservative banner, they cautioned that the movement's support could...
When Bad Things Happen To Adult Siblings...
Devotion does not provide a template for finding your own personal Jesus (or whoever). It's a history of Shapiro's quest to explore her own faithlessness. She grew up in an Orthodox household but cast aside her Hebrew religious study as a teenager. As an adult, her sense of God was that if he existed, he was not a micromanager. ("As far as I knew, he had never gotten me a parking space.") She wants to believe in something but doesn't know what...