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College students are known for their ability to survive on instant noodles, toast and a shoestring budget. But recently, some students in Ireland have gotten particularly desperate. "I have heard from students who have lived on biscuits stolen from the chaplaincy in their college for a week, students who have lived in their cars for months," says Hugh Sullivan, education officer at the Union of Students in Ireland, a group that advocates on behalf of more than 250,000 students across the country...
...slightly more PG story. “When I saw the e-mail I sort of gasped,” she said. “I then called my parents, who then proceeded to tell the waiter at whatever place they were eating at that I had gotten...
...anonymous Harvardian, getting into Harvard was something of a curse. “As a Boston-area native from a Harvard-favored public school, not only was I not ecstatic about my admission, I was actually depressed that I hadn't gotten into other schools that would finally allow me to leave Boston.” But all was not lost: “The cast member next to me said he received an acceptance e-mail, but then claimed five days later that the email had been sent by accident and gave me all the Harvard paraphernalia that...
...gotten better over the years at accepting the inherent confusions that my name brings. I just smile in silence when the Greenhouse Café card swiper chirps, “Have a nice day, Henrietta!” Or when someone I meet up with for the first time in Lamont exclaims with shock, “I wasn’t expecting you to be a girl!” I can laugh it off and say, truthfully, that it happens all the time...
...leadership. At that point, Benedict might just make his mark on Church history as the eternal guide for personal accountability. And when other cases come up - and they will - we in the media can start to talk about what has improved in combating sex abuse, what Benedict has gotten right and indeed the fact that these problems exist elsewhere...