Word: couchful
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...greet—my year we barely filled the host’s kitchen table, and that’s about it for regular meetings. The whole Nebraska group joined the Oklahomans last December to watch our football teams in the playoffs, and all of us fit (with couch space to spare) in the Dunster House TV room. That game was the only time we’ve ever gathered during the term, and for the most part I’m lucky if I run into someone when neither of us is on the way to class...
...thing I think is important is not to be coy or cute. People who are afraid of rejection tend to couch their expression of interest in a joke or try to make light of it. I think what they do is they leave themselves more open to misinterpretation. So I think being both subtle and direct is the best way to go. And you have to transmit through your tone, through your voice, and through your body language that you are absolutely willing to take no for an answer so that you both feel comfortable after a no might...
...being administered by the U.N. The same ethnic divisions and territorial disputes that fueled the 1999 war still linger, as do the international differences on how to manage them. Upon arrival, however, I was more interested in the past eight years of Dani's life. On the living-room couch of the wood-paneled house where he lives with his parents and three sisters, everyone gathered around as we flipped through a photo album and the three-ring binder that holds all the diplomas and certificates he's earned. Here was the proof that his mother, Naile Ilazi, who never...
...don’t have cable,” said Ryan S. Nolan ’09. However, until Jack Bauer of Fox’s now-suspended “24” makes his comeback, it appears that many students are content to pull themselves off the couch and switch off the dial. “I don’t care that much,” said Peyton Shieh ’10. “There’s always YouTube...
...shopping day of the year falls on the earliest possible date, November 23, giving Americans 32 days before Christmas to find the perfect gift. But with the specter of a possible looming recession and a lack of must-have items in stores, fewer Americans are likely to leave the couch and hit the mall with the same kind of alacrity and determination they have in years past. "Black Friday is going to be a gray Friday," says Marshal Cohen, chief retail analyst at the NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, New York...