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...slacker route. The third-born may then de-de-identify, opting for industriousness, even if in the more unconventional ways of the last-born. A Chinese study in the 1990s showed just this kind of zigzag pattern, with the first child generally scoring high as a "good son or daughter," the second scoring low, the third scoring high again and so on. In a three-child family, the very act of trying to be unique may instead leave the middling lost, a pattern that may continue into adulthood...
...worry, when you’re paying homage to the porcelain god at the end of the night, you can rest assured that your hair will still look hot. Says Adams House Resident Dean Sharon L. Howell: “Side bangs? They’re great. My daughter wears them. She’s two.” The JFK Charming, chatty, and charismatic (or so you want to believe), you often have a slight brown stain on the end of your undoubtedly handsome nose. When you’re not hobnobbing at an IOP event...
...handlers, PR agents and momanagers intent on horning in on their daughters’ careers (yet also sabotaging them by choosing, while their daughters are in a coked-out haze, films for them such as “I Know Who Killed Me,” a movie in which said daughter experiences twin stigmata), true personal style is hard to come by. Sadly, this is not an original age, and the famous women of today are merely the puppets of more fashionable anorexics, who in turn send out correctly-dressed clones to Us Magazine parties as their life work...
...judgmental American public that seems to favor women of the Laura Bush ilk (heck, even Hillary is showing cleavage on the presidential trail while also wearing an endless string of peach linen pants suits, the likes of which I have never seen in any store), Janet Reno, the daughter of humorless Dutch immigrants, stuck to her guns and kept on wearing really long jackets with no lapels. You’ve got to admire it. It’s a style that even lascivious old Bill couldn’t change (and I am sure he tried...
...race, gender, and human dignity throughout the reading. As in much of her work, a mystical atmosphere pervaded the story. “How many times do I have to tell you? Demons do not bleed,” she read, quoting a widow speaking to her dying daughter. “We bleed—demons never.” Ultimately, however, the reading transformed into a reminder of the transcendent power of love. Gloria I. Montiel ’09, who has read Morrison’s novel “Beloved” 12 times, said...