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...joking?” No, unfortunately we’re not joking—“we” being myself, my first-year roommate Katie and my current roommate Kate. The comp requirements are a year of living with me, possessing a Kate-ish name, and lacking annoying work habits. Each day, Thesis Club takes over a seminar room for 12 hours at a time, where the Kates and I lay out all our papers and peck away at endless chapters while munching on discount Valentine’s candy. It’s a warm, encouraging atmosphere...
...freedom to write what he pleases isn’t so extraordinary in the view of nonchalant Oxfordians. If the Oxford Student is any indication, the British don’t seem to censor much of anything. The Oxford Student is “a little more tabloid-ish, a little more edgy,” says Fenster. With such telling headlines as “Shit Happens” (over student council elections) and “Surrey to Sell Out” (when Britain’s Surrey University took an initiative to break away from traditional government...
...think the deal is that Stella McCartney is young and hippie-ish and laid back, and she gets the staff to be that way too, though I'm not entirely sure how this is accomplished by a five-page booklet on paradox. But the friendliness of the staff makes the customers feel unguarded, more relaxed and more likely to open their wallets. Other stores are stuck in a cycle of cruelty, like some horrible dysfunctional marriage. Speaking of which, I inadvertently mentioned the 60%-off sale to my wife. Three days and $600 later, I became the worst-paid sales...
Chopra: I realize that 99.9 percent of people define a square as a shape with four sides of equal length. Around here, though, any time there is an end of a street and a curb, you can have a square. To make it more square-ish, I think I would allow food vendors on the street...
...Perhaps the most intelligently romantic of all wartime dramas is Ann Hui's Love in a Fallen City (1984), from the Eileen Chang novel about a lonely Shanghai widow (Cora Miao) courted by a dashing Hong Kong playboy (the young, magnetic Chow Yun-fat at his most Cary Grant-ish) in 1939. The Japanese invade Hong Kong, families and fortunes crumble, yet the glow of their hard-won rapture, of love deferred and love embraced, lights up the screen...