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...four years of leisure provided us by a college education should be spent fruitfully. We ought not fritter away our late adolescence and early adulthood, when our romantic sensibilities are acutest, in the tedium and drudgery of practical politics—whether manning activist brigades or scribbling position papers. We should be enjoying each other’s company without trying to win votes for a future election. We should be playing sports while we still have the time and energy unavailable in the future. We should be reading, writing, and thinking about the good life?...
Newspapers on paper are on the way out. Whether newspaper companies are on the way out too depends. Some of them are going to find the answers. And some are going to fritter away the years quarreling about staff cuts...
...Smoke, the Modern and Tabla fame) last year unveiled a ?roadside? food stand in New York City's Madison Square Park. The Shake Shack serves up affordable fare like cheeseburgers, crinkle-cut fries, hot dogs, frozen custard, beer and even breakfast?you can eat your warm heirloom apple fritter and Shack-a-ccino (total: $5.31) on a folding plastic chair under the shade of a tree. In nearby Bryant Park stand four 'wichcraft kiosks, offering such gourmet handheld meals as stone-ground grits ($4) and marinated white anchovy sandwiches ($8). Owner Tom Colicchio (Craft and Gramercy Tavern) also...
...have no problem, right? All the bad women will have to have their unwanted babies, or go to Sweden (rich), or be killed in a botched abortion attempt (poor). As for the men, whose refusal to wear a condom just might have led to the pregnancy, they can fritter away their existence with absolutely zero consequences to their actions. That doesn’t seem moral...
...junior, Grumet-Morris saw Harvard fritter away a three-goal, third-period lead over the Black Bears in absolutely gut-wrenching fashion. He amassed 41 saves in the loss...