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...process of naturalization is all about questions: Do you know when the Declaration was signed? Do you habla inglés? Did you, by any chance, stuff a balloon in your rectum before boarding that flight back from Bangkok? But if they’re going to ask questions like that, they should also ask: What have you bothered to see, and whom did you get to know? In fact, they should ask that of everyone—immigrant, student, citizen, presidential candidate—because what could be more important to living in a country than knowing what?...
...must think he’s quirky” look, I say that I don’t have enough time to be doing much else with a free plane ticket, or that it’s tough finding companions for a $600 day trip, or that, you know, it’s been really hard this semester and I need to go out there and find myself...
...afraid of putting in a lot of work,” she says. “But it would sometimes be very daunting that no matter how much work I put in I couldn’t know for sure that my experiment would work...
...Once I actually heard a student in the Cabot dining hall refer to the difficulty of having a long-distance relationship and of course I assumed the student was talking about having a girlfriend at Yale or at, I don’t know, NYU or something, but he was actually talking about having a girlfriend, I don’t know, in Dunster. But I’d say, it’s really not that far and that Cabot House is just a really special place. The sophomore and the junior classes that are going to be leading...
That certainly sounds frightening, but few people know, or care, about the side-effects changing skin color. I still know some people who think that this is the key to getting the perfect guy, the perfect life. I know it’s too much to ask society to change racial problems overnight, but there is certainly more we can do. In America, we can at least ask teachers to bring attention to skin-esteem in schools, doctors to look out for their patients, the Food and Drug Administration to regulate dangerous products, the Federal Commercial Commission to regulate commercials...