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Initially I was revulsed by the "39" dangling like an awkward appendage after my last name. I had become part of the assembly line of Lees in the Harvard factory...
Compare this coming weekend with its counterpart two years ago. On Freshman Parents' Weekend, many of us were counting the six awkward weeks between move-in day and our parents' return, like kids at summer camp longing for the glories of Visiting Day. We eagerly brought our parents on campus tours, pointing out buildings where our classes met and even those in which we didn't have a class. We went to all the panels and inspirational speakers and concerts that the weekend's organizers had so zealously planned for us. When our parents arrived on campus, we frantically introduced...
That itch will make this coming weekend awkward for many students, like those who have surreptitiously moved in with a significant other, or those who introduced a boyfriend their first year and who now must introduce (or avoid introducing) a girlfriend, or those who risk their parents' misinterpretation of a friend who is really just a friend or a fling who is really just a fling, or those who would simply prefer to do without their parents' impromptu advice about which of various passers-by they should...
...President remained his own best witness, as his joint press conference with Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair made clear. Press conferences with foreign leaders are normally awkward affairs in which the questions and the answers arrive in separate languages, on separate topics, with separate translators. So Friday's performance was downright surreal: the two golden boys of the Third way, Bill and Tony, speaking the same language, practicing a style of politics one had virtually copied from the other, both touting the virtues of a middle class that works hard and plays by the rules. Except that Clinton...
...bells and gleaming gold clock hands at St. Paul's church are a welcome addition to the Mt. Auburn community of Adams, Lowell and Quincy, houses normally grouped with the River houses. Now, for better or worse, instead of the awkward "Tommy's Houses" moniker which these three houses have earned, they can be called the Bell Houses...