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...tentatively set foot in Cambridge, scouring the campus for signs of students devoted unhealthily to their studies. I was searching for those fabled souls who forgot to enjoy life, while drowning in schoolwork. From interrogating the staff at Mental Health services to approaching students in Widener, obnoxiously inquiring about their state of happiness, I attempted to gather evidence to support my claims. I found nothing. Nothing, beyond the concerns common to all colleges—“I can’t find a boyfriend,” “I hate my concentration...
...farfetched that a man would forget his own grandson? Sure. But the gag works, because many of us also forgot Ben existed, even though he figured heavily in the sitcom's first two seasons. Jokes on Friends often involve characters' reminding us of basic details about their lives (say, that Monica and Ross are brother and sister) or forgetting details about one another (in Season 7, Chandler gets glasses, and everyone, including his fiance Monica, believes he has always had them). Friends is like that: content to be funny and forgettable. Even the episode titles--"The One Where ..."--suggest that...
...Stewart failed to learn from the travails of Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton: it's not the crime; it's the cover-up. Martha is not going to jail for using insider information to sell stock; she's going to jail for lying to federal investigators. She forgot that even rich people are not above the law, especially in a presidential-election year. Andrew C. Rigrod Sherman Oaks...
...independent music world as quickly as Broken Social Scene. The Toronto-based collective had at least ten regular members at the last count, when they rose from the forests of Canada to total relevance. They broke onto the scene with their enormously popular and critically acclaimed 2002 album You Forgot It In People, an album that was hyped to such an extent (notably by rising hipster gatekeeper website Pitchforkmedia.com) that it couldn’t help but fail to live up to expectations...
They never forgot. And this was their chance to win what had slipped away last season. Destiny brought them and Harvard back to the championship game...