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Adolf R. Levinson ’04 certainly knows how to get his way with the ladies. Last Friday, in the middle of an otherwise polite chit-chat with Bailey C. Gonzalez ’04, he couldn’t resist noting how much she reminds him of Tanya Harding, former Olympian, assault co-conspirator and star of Fox’s celebrity female boxing. Levinson, who suffers from a mild case of Tourrettes, was surprised when Gonzalez didn’t take the compliment as it was intended. “I simply meant that...
...Lastly, avoid the temptation to escape with your purchases by taxi or tuk tuk. The air-conditioned Skytrain is only 100 meters away from the northeastern market entrance at Mo Chit station (before the rail system was built, it took an hour to get here from downtown). And as Mo Chit is the northern terminus of the Sukhumvit line, you've got a good chance of a seat?plus you'll also avoid the City of Angels' hellish traffic snarls...
Talk about blaming the messenger. All Professor of English Elisa New did was pass on some chit-chat she’d heard from a party—that Tom Paulin, a poet who was scheduled to give a reading at Harvard, had made anti-Semitic remarks to an Egyptian newspaper. Yet as word spread of Paulin’s views and a controversy ensued, New herself, a 44 year-old tenured American literature scholar, became the target of suspicion from both colleagues and outsiders. Then again, that can happen when the president of Harvard calls you his girlfriend...
Butler can also can square three-digit numbers in his head, but he is reluctant to reveal his techniques. It takes several Kirkland House visitors and 30 minutes of chit-chat, but he finally caves and shares his secret algorithm with FM—on the condition that it not be published. “I’ll sue the F off your M,” he warns. A few hints: The trick involves massive amounts of mental math, memorization and effort. And it only works for dates after...
...nearly 1 a.m., Blickstead tires of swaying. He nears the door as if to begin planning his exit strategy. After 15 minutes of patient door-side chit-chat, the human barricade around the door dissipates and it seems that this steaming, stinking party womb might actually expel Blickstead back into the cool night air from whence he came...