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...Those interested can check whenever they want without feeling an awkward obligation to respond while those uninterested don’t feel guilty,” Wulsin wrote in an e-mail...
Watching shitty football teams play each other isn’t exactly our idea of a weekend well-spent. That’s why the Ivy League gods created the Harvard-Yale tailgate—a chance for socially awkward and sexually repressed poindexters to trade glasses for beer goggles and sloppy problem sets for attempts at sloppy...
...town crowd and proximity to Massachusetts placed Bush’s Bay State-bashing in an unusually awkward context, although the president’s audience hardly seemed to mind...
...think about it every five seconds." For life, this is the fundamental truth of teen boyhood--who can argue?--and the stories are all about sex, its pursuit and its complications. Handsome jock Dino (Sean Faris) has a girlfriend but can't get her to have sex with him. Awkward Jonathan (Chris Lowell) has a friend, Deborah (Kelly Osbourne), who's hot for him, but he's afraid his friends will make fun of him for dating her because she's overweight...
...head monk) at Tango Monastery. He is the reincarnation of the monk who built the monastery 500 years ago. Nine years old but looking even younger, he peers out at me from a pair of glasses with lenses so thick I cannot see his eyes through them. I feel awkward and self-conscious, for although he is tiny, he has the composed presence of an old man. I think of my nine-year-old brother at home playing on his bike, and then of this nine-year old boy, sequestered in a house above a monastery to which the only...