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...prove. It’s hard to be at Harvard, where the enormous pond of excellence has relegated your erstwhile big fish persona into washed-out post-superstardom and overwhelming obscurity. And it’s not like your upcoming exam performance is going to rocket you to instant fame. So, you think, I know how to handle this. I’ll take off all my clothes, run around Harvard Yard, and scream. I’ll be a bona fide celebrity by the next morning...
...side that night, and neither was Old Uncle Arthur. Indeed, that Arthur has always been a huge prick, don’t you think? Screw Uncle Arthur! Screw your pride! When you wake up the Saturday morning, you won’t have won instant celebrity. You’ll more likely wake up in UHS, with unexplained bruises, pneumonia, bronchitis, and a link in your inbox directing you to the naked pictures of you that are now featured in full color on some C.S. major’s FAS site...
...Lambertson Truex: When Richard Lambertson and John Truex teamed up five years ago, their bags became instant status symbols for chic American women. Now the boys are taking on the old European brands on the Continentals' home turf. And since they're competing on quality, not price, expect to pay $5,800 for the matte crocodile...
Cornell crashed the goal early on, peppering Grumet-Morris with 16 shots in the first two periods and—with a little help from lackluster Crimson defending and favorable luck—netted instant results...
When cricketer Stephen Rodger Waugh was first selected for Australia as a whippet-thin all-rounder in 1985, the side was struggling, and Waugh was no instant hero. (He took four years to make his first century.) But Australians admire a battler, and Waugh looked as if he could fight a bushfire and save his team from defeat in the same afternoon...