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...noticed it early his freshman year, but it did not bother him that much. After all, things had been that way even in high school. If he got a B+ or two, so what? He could not envision it fucking up his life. Occasionally, he wondered why the professors wanted to make his life miserable, whether they got some sort of sadistic pleasure out of knowing that he hated and feared them...
James St. Clair was born 54 years ago in Akron, Ohio. His father was a mechanical engineer whose work took the family from city to city with disruptive regularity (St. Clair attended four high schools). But the constant uprooting apparently did not bother...
Good Company. The benefits even extend to relationships with other women. Students interviewed in the early group complained that women were "competitive and irritable" around other females. Constantly preoccupied with men, they didn't bother to be good company with each other. Having men around, notes the study, seems to encourage greater friendship and respect between women...
...most irritating aspect of compulsory seat-belting is not so much the bother of it all as the violation of basic principles of individual freedom. By "protecting" individuals from the hazards of cigarette smoking, by banning cigarette commercials on TV, by requiring that autos carry seat belts that must be fastened in order to start the car, or (heaven forbid!) fining people for not fastening belts in the privacy of their own vehicles, we violate longstanding tenets of liberty, independence and self-reliance...
...champion, and the start of a long dry spell. May 1972: Harvard is undefeated going into the Sprints, looking for its toughest competition from Penn and defending champion Navy. The two boats will race side by side in the afternoon finals; Harry Parker tells coxswain Dave Weinberg not to bother about any other crew-look out for Penn...