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...find you on a Saturday night: Definitely not in my room playing beer pong since I’m not 21... First thing you notice about a guy/girl: Her sense of humor and eagerness for long walks on the beach... Your best pick-up line: Eyyyy... Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: I don’t lie. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: When I run, my ears catch the wind and get cold. That is uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Cords. Yes, cords. Sexiest physical trait: My biceps/thigh circumference ratio. Favorite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: scoped! | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...they are stereotyped as not being politically active. I think it’s important for us to change that because we know many politically motivated Asian Americans.” While the organization hopes to increase Asian American activism in national politics in the future, its current priorities lie in increasing Asian American activism on campus. “Right now, our focus has been student politics because it has been the first year of the organization,” said Edward Y. Lee ’08, one of the coordinators of the new initiative and vice-chair...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Calling All Asian American Politicos | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

...cream parlour." On a train, after meeting two lonely souls, he has an epiphany about the fissure "between ordinary human need and the rhetoric of success." "Believing that your value as a human being is measured by your independence and separation from others is the great lie of the market-driven world," he writes. As a professional daydreamer, Gurr's writing drifts off in wicked thought: "On the early trains, slightly damp hair and recently applied make-up give you access to bodies so lately asleep or naked that it can induce a sensation like the swoon of a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Stripped Bare | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

...when they saw him get out of a brand-new car, assumed he was rich. Later, during interrogations by his captors, the Chevrolet Lumina would come up again and again. "Whenever I said my family were too poor to pay ransom, they would hit me and say, 'Don't lie to us. We know what kind of car you drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disappeared of Iraq | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...moderation, that satellite television is acceptable, that a divorced mother has the right to date - are part of a special, private world of which they should never speak outside. This makes a value out of privacy, and sidesteps the delicate task of teaching why it's okay to lie in certain situations, but not in others. None of this wards off the day your son returns home, as in the case of this friend, and informs you that as per what he learned in class that day, you, his mother, are immoral for not wearing a full black chador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising a Child in Iran's Cultural Divide | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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