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...cook for her own family. So she and a friend started getting together one Saturday a month to prepare a bunch of meals, shoving them in the freezer and later heating them up one night at a time. After seven years of giving tips to other moms who heard about the system, Allen sent an e-mail inviting friends to her catering kitchen. "I told them that we'll make this a girls' night out once a month," she said. "I'll bring the wine and the music, and [we'll] get a chore done...
...ride home. Many students choose to avoid “Veritas apparel” because they see wearing it—just like admitting you go to Harvard—as an awkward and arrogant display. But frequently, this anxiety is rooted in false modesty. I’ve heard many classmates imply they were sparing the feelings of less fortunate individuals who were not admitted to Ivy League institutions by refusing to sport a shirt emblazoned with that big red “H.” For some, this decision stems from a genuine feeling of academic superiority...
...three touchdowns with regularity, I realized that a loss, if it ever came, would hurt twice as badly. It’s important to remember that this team is not simply a winning machine, that it’s human. Not human because—have you heard?—Brady sometimes brings flowers to his girlfriend. No, the tension exists because the Patriots are vulnerable, due to their apparent invincibility. More vulnerable, and thus more exciting, more fun to follow, because they have the most to gain by winning, and to lose by losing. Giants fans will rightfully...
...there's something about an 18-year-old that can't abide careful hedging and cautious steps. The Senator's daughter Maddie Esposito had seen the way her mother teared up whenever she heard Obama speak. And now it was happening again as mother and daughter sat side by side on the family-room sofa in a suburb of St. Louis, watching the results of the Iowa caucuses on TV. "You know you believe in him," Maddie admonished her damp-eyed mother. "It's time to step up." The next morning, Maddie, a college freshman home for the holidays, added...
...teenagers today that you can remember a time when the Clintons were hip. There was this guy on TV, see, called Arsenio Hall, and Bill Clinton went on wearing sunglasses and playing a saxophone, and, well, no, it wasn't on YouTube - this was before most people had heard of the Internet - oh, never mind. There's nothing new, for today's young people, about a Clinton replacing a Bush...