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...glasses and asthma, perhaps many of us came to the decision that, if our judgmental tweenage peers wouldn’t accept us, we would find entertainment elsewhere. Distancing ourselves from sleepovers, playground antics, and inconsistent cliques, we turned to books, perhaps even requesting extra work from teachers to fill the empty void of lunch break...
...Indeed, in many cases, the desperate effort to add on more courses and yet more extracurricular activities does seem like a frantic attempt to fill time. Students cram the day with meetings and work so that there is not the slightest opportunity for conversation. Summer vacation? Internship. Winter vacation? Fall back on the middle-school tactic and ask for extra work, formally known as the J-term...
...presentations.” Mattison added that the formation of different community groups is not a “competition” nor a “knock on the Task Force,” but simply the result of “a role that needed to be filled.” But Jake Carman, a founder of the Allston Brighton Neighborhood Assembly, who has been far more critical of the current planning structure than Mattison, said that “you have to question where exactly the power lies” in the BRA’s development...
...February. “I’m looking forward to a lot of the benefits we’re getting by it. But in 50 years we’ll all be gone by global warming or something. Let’s talk about now, the present. Fill up these empty shacks...
Musical Interlude. During New Orleans' French Quarter Festival (April 17 to 19), the streets of the Quarter fill with some 400,000 visitors who are serenaded with all kinds of music, from jazz to opera to gospel, across 15 stages. If it's just jazz you want, Nola has that too: the New Orleans Jazz Festival runs from April 24 to 25 and April...