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...found that young college women are always looking for guys who are sensitive and self-sufficient, but maintain a strong, masculine personality. The problem is, of course, guys like this don’t really exist. So, the guys who end up with the girls are not the ones who have these traits, but the ones who are able to trick girls into thinking that they do. You must subtly show the girl you are courting that you are sensitive, manly, and able to take care of yourself. Try saying something like this...
...child, I used to comfort myself whenever I felt scared by imagining a big castle,” said Ryan A. Petersen ’08, Cabot House resident and madman. “When I came to Harvard, I found that the Castle really DID exist! It was called the Currier TLR, and it was good.” The TLR was, in fact, a castle belonging to all of Harvard. Or something. From its birth in 1970, noisy, irresponsible shit has been going down in the TLR–and overworked and under-socialized students have been able...
...Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, essayist Daniel Harris wrote about the tendency for "cute" to veer into a fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant's neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness...
Employers' fears have sparked a boom in the background-screening industry. About 700 firms exist now, compared to only a handful 10 years ago. Analysts say revenues for the industry are growing 7% to 10% a year. Though exhaustive checks on CEO-level individuals can cost $10,000 or more, some companies offer basic vetting for as little as $10. HireRight of Irvine, Calif., screens 1 million rsums a year and says business has grown tenfold over the past five years: employers have grown so watchful, says David Nachman, the company's head of marketing and business development...
...department and committee chairs—was formed in response to last year’s crisis of University governance, the group has decided to continue meeting even after University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation.“We talked about whether our group should continue to exist into the future, and we decided it should,” said History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 in a recent interview. “People find it valuable to be able to exchange information.”Gordon and James J. McCarthy, the chair...