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...seems particularly unusual that this habit should be so prevalent at Harvard—a place where the majority of students are able to offer rational and valuable views on any topic raised in discussion. They have the education, the resources and the level of instruction necessary to transform their ideas into winning arguments. All that is required is that they deliver them in an eloquent and clear manner. Yet so often this manner is sacrificed to “umms,” “errs,” and of course, the ubiquitous “like...
...checked into rehab for alcoholism and discovered that she was pregnant. Although Lord says she was very much in love with the baby’s father, long-time boyfriend Kevin Patey of the Raging Teens, the pregnancy was not planned. As for her heavy drinking, she says the habit arose as a mechanism to cope with the stress and exhaustion that accompany constant touring. “Instead of addressing that I needed a break, a rest to get my friggin’ head together, I just decided to drink and ignore it,” she says. Lord...
Meet Choi Ju Hee, savior of the South Korean economy. Armed with two credit cards and an allowance from her parents, she spends at least $600 a month on clothes, drinking with friends and a serious cell-phone habit (her father once cut off her home phone for a month to teach her a lesson on the cost of things). Her most prized possession: a pair of Salvatore Ferragamo loafers. What she badly wants: a pair of Prada sneakers. On a recent shopping expedition, she eyes a white cotton DKNY skirt. Her mother steps in, telling...
Bolker: I think when writing is a habit, you don’t end up in that 11th-hour reading period bind. Bill Perry, who was the head of the Bureau of Study Counsel, described writing by saying, “First you make a mess and then you clean it up.” Just as you don’t drive your car with the emergency brake on, you don’t mix the creative and the critical parts of writing. First you throw everything at the page and then go back and look with a steely...
...something really needs to get done, you mobilize,” he says. But Byrnes and 1998 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate Jamie W. Marquart were not completely unoccupied during their law school days, as they explain in their new book, Brush With the Law. Marquart developed a gambling habit, while Byrnes spent his time smoking crack and having sex involving—depending on the occasion—one, two or three individuals, sometimes including Harvard undergraduates...