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...strikingly tall, especially in heels. My growth spurt as a Chinese American had been all of two inches between 5’0” and 5’2.” I balanced The Harvard Crimson and an applied-math concentration. She was literally a Gov jock. She was the only one in her high school ever to come to Harvard. My competitive New York City high school sent 11 kids to Harvard my year alone. She was so white it seemed almost ethnic...

Author: By Jennifer 8. Lee | Title: About Alison | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

With little warning and much haste, the buzz-cut jock and I moved into our dorm together. We had nothing to talk about, so we shimmied about the room in near silence. But as he heaved his final box into the room, Nick looked around our common room and said something...

Author: By Charles J. Wells | Title: Freedom to Float | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...film version of “High School Musical” tells the story of sensitive basketball jock Troy Bolton (Gus T. Hickey ’11) and a beautiful science nerd Gabriella Montez (Samara R. Oster ’13). Despite existing in completely different social circles, they fall in love and challenge the status quo by coming together to audition for their yearly high school musical...

Author: By Araba A. Appiagyei-Dankah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HSM Scenes | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

What do you think happened on Monday, after that day in detention? It is my hope that Claire [the princess] and Bender [the rebel] were boyfriend and girlfriend and really fell in love and had a beautiful relationship. That Allison [the misfit] and Andy [the jock] were also boyfriend and girlfriend. And that Brian felt more confident because he had discovered a new part of himself. (See pictures of movie costumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brat Pack Author Susannah Gora | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...anyone - can take away from these films? Hughes basically wanted to say to teenagers, Look, it doesn't have to be that bad. I think in his films he was sort of telling people to believe in optimism. That, yes, the nerd can get the babe, and the jock can have a heart, deep down. The reason his movies are uplifting is because they're really honest about the elements of his characters' lives that do kind of suck, so that at the end, when they finally get their happy ending, it feels so richly deserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brat Pack Author Susannah Gora | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

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