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...were the cool kids who drank beer and made out, and the nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old who gives another nerdy pre-pubescent twelve-year-old a pink carnation on Valentine’s Day has the entire rest of the year to sit and feel awkward in Language Arts class...

Author: By Emma M. Lind, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cupid is my Homeboy | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

...Today Show” made of pretend news and cut with plenty of fluff. Stop and thihjgnk about the situation too much and the ending seems inevitable (I won’t spoil it, but you can probably guess). What should have been a profound conclusion becomes perfunctory and awkward...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Doubt" Has A Hesitant Debut | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

...that his colleagues cannot be led “idiotic,” although he concedes, “it is out there.” Ryan blames the disappearance of strong outside candidates on loose lips. “My view is that the press leaks made it awkward for people who were being considered. Don’t forget that this is a job one doesn’t apply for, and thus some of them may have felt upset that their names were being bandied around in the press.” The nature of the position...

Author: By Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: President of Harvard: A Plum Job No More? | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

...wasn't going anywhere. That agent, who worked for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), told him that a grand jury had issued a sealed indictment against Noorzai 3 1/2 months earlier and that he was now under arrest for conspiring to smuggle narcotics into the U.S. from Afghanistan. An awkward silence ensued as the words were translated into his native Pashtu. "I did not believe it," Noorzai later told TIME from his prison cell. "I thought they were joking." The previous August, an American agent he had met with said the trip to the U.S. would be "like a vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warlord or Druglord? | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...communication. This is a lot of drinks. Keep drinking. Your social life is exactly like this. 4. For teetotalers: Drink every time there is a black person. 5. Chug beer for the entire duration of the scene where Bujalski’s character Lawrence plays the leering TF from awkward hell. 6. Drink one shot for every dollar you think was spent on making this film. You will not be very drunk as a result of doing this. 7. Even better, drink one shot for every dollar that got into the greasy hands of the money-grubbing Hollywood studio machine...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SCREENSHOTS: 'Mutual Appreciation' | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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