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...floor of the legislature again next week, there’s another issue students would benefit to see debated: the ban on selling liquor in grocery stores. While Californians can enjoy the privilege of buying their Smirnoff in any Safeway, Massachusetts citizens, and the students that dwell seasonally within its drier-than-thou borders, are denied this convenience...
...Cause that’s cool, you know. She wore it every day while we were there.” Of course, having Season around at home meant fewer late-night hours spent at parties with friends, but as usual, Hammond didn’t dwell on it. “There’ll be so many more parties in my life,” she says...
...dwell so much on credentials, the kind that family friends include in their nauseating holiday letters, in part because they do matter. Graduate schools, fellowship committees and job interviewers will use them to judge us. But mostly, we care out of habit, because those credentials were the bedrock of our self-esteem for over a dozen years of schooling. We are pressured to evaluate ourselves on the admissions office’s criteria because those credentials have always brought us the most effusive praise, not to mention acceptance at Harvard and high-powered opportunities once we leave...
...oddly upbeat reaction from a city that has now suffered seven terrorist attacks in just nine months, with a combined death toll of 69. But the truth is that many in India have good reason not to dwell too deeply on this upsurge in violence?not just businesspeople in the financial capital but also the national government itself, which many blame for inciting such attacks. Typically, India points a finger at Pakistan anytime terrorists strike. But in this case, a quiet consensus is building that the perpetrators were most likely homegrown. Both Indian and U.S. intelligence officers suspect that last...
...emotions, and Christopher uses the Holmes stories as a kind of User's Guide to Life. While Christopher slowly teases out the sinister story behind Wellington's murder--which involves him and his family more intimately than he at first supposes--we gradually learn what it's like to dwell in the mind of a child with a photographic memory, who knows every prime number up to 7,057, but who can't understand what a hypothetical question is. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is funny, sad and totally convincing. But is it a mystery...