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...phenomenon is akin to the exhaustion of self-control - that is, one act of self-control weakens your ability to commit to another. For example, people who never touch a drop of alcohol during the week may be more inclined to go nuts on weekends, or someone who successfully resists buying a new jacket one day may be twice as likely to spring for a pair of shoes the next. As with all behaviors that seem hardwired into us, the best solution - maybe the only solution - might simply be to remain vigilant...
...take a cab coming back. Gates open two hours before game time. Go early and you can watch batting practice and snag some baseballs. Hang around the dugout and you might get an autograph. BYO sharpie. Alternatively, you can head to landmark bar The Cask & Flagon to pre-game. Alcohol smuggling is (not-so-strictly) prohibited in the ballpark, so plan accordingly. Food is always expensive, but you can get your hot dogs cheaper on Landsdowne Street just outside the park, and once you’re inside, you can still go out to Yawkey Way for seconds...
...we’ve come. It wasn’t so long ago that many of us wandered through the unfamiliar streets of Cambridge ourselves, imagining the endless possibilities of scintillating lectures, keg parties, late-night debates over Lolita in hipster coffee shops, and access to endless alcohol, or at least a really good fake ID. Of course, the reality turns out to be a little different, and it’s nice to be reminded of our former naivete. But perhaps these prefrosh are on to something. Whatever happened to that sense of hope and possibility that we once...
...smackdown! Wow, it’s like the voices WERE the instruments. I want to join an a capella group, but who would want me, anyhow? I couldn’t even get into the Fallen Angels. Man, those girls have it all. Sure, I turn to drugs and alcohol sometimes to get by, but who doesn’t? Life’s tough. Do you know how many AP 5s I got? Nine...
...several days because this can have serious effects," Kundermann said. "It can result in psychosis, for instance." He said using his study to evaluate the CIA program was like using a study about "the transient reactions of a little schnapps" to justify forcing prisoners to "drink large amounts of alcohol...