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Even though Harvard students pride themselves on being a community of talented and unique individuals, we frequently speak about each other in terms of types. For example, just look at the pervasiveness of academic labels: the pre-med, the gov jock, the computer nerd...
...replaced by "personality." You'll hear an awful lot about Sean Wissman's Kansas upbringing in the next year and dot pictures on the editorial page, perhaps. People don't want the razor-sharp dissections as much as general appreciation. I call the new style the "ex-jock" trend...
...done that brilliantly enough this fall, completing 69% of his passes in F.S.U.'s first nine games and throwing & for 16 touchdowns with only one interception, way down from 17 last year. That stat indicates Ward's newfound maturity; but he is by nature no rah-rah jock. After F.S.U.'s win over Miami he uncharacteristically pumped both fists at the ecstatic crowd -- not from emotional overdrive but because, he said, "I thought they deserved it." Good doggies, says the stern master...
During the hourlong forum, Lewis defended the rights of flag burners and shock-jock Howard Stern, and criticized attempts to regulate speech on college campuses...
...interesting to watch these characters hang out. Some of them are very appealing, especially Slater (Rory Cochrane), the resident drug fiend, who is always slouching around in a cute, grungy way making funny little comments. Some aren't appealing, like O'Bannion (Ben Affleck), the typical sexist jock bully. There are the two nerdy guys, Mike (Adam Gold-berg) and Tony (Anthony Rapp), who spend the movie philosophizing and screwing up courage to engage in appropriate senior activities, and the nice, shy girl, Sabrina (Christin Hinojosa). For the purposes of the movie they're all like the people you went...