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...very detrimental. If you went out for drinks on Saturday night with your ex-girlfriend and you don’t want to worry your girlfriend over something that wasn’t a big deal to you, I suppose you could resort to a white lie. But your relationship should be based on trust to begin with, so a much better choice would be to be up front with your girlfriend about your plans and assure her she has nothing to worry about. If you can’t be honest with her, maybe you should think about...
...Doing a power hour with my roomies or chilling/rocking out at the Spee. First thing you notice about a girl: Her smile. Your best pick-up line: “Excuse me, can I get you a drink” in an English accent usually works. Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: In order to get my staggering phone bill reduced, I once told Cingular that I was a 3rd year student at Harvard Law and that I knew far more about contract laws than they ever would. Something you’ve always wanted...
...Harvard’s hands-off approach to local politics may lie more in its students’ priorities than in the nature of the town-gown divide. Even at Yale, a university bounded by urban disaster on all sides, students traditionally leave some imprint on city government...
Griffin and her husband John had never grown corn before, but she decided to learn because she did not want the land that John's family has owned for five generations to lie fallow. "We don't want to grow houses. We want to grow crops," says Griffin, who says she spent around $30,000 on the maze, which had drawn about 2,000 visitors by mid-October. Griffin did have some setbacks, including an earworm infestation that required spraying. And even though she hasn't yet turned a profit, she hopes to next year. "People will...
...Isn’t that how we got here in the first place—by finding that elusive balance between schoolwork and sleep, between dozens of extracurricular initiatives and a fulfilling social life? To be sure, the commitments we juggle now are significantly different from those that lie ahead. But the distinction does little to explain the observed double standard in ambition and levels of self-confidence. The only plausible explanation seems to be that the belief in a mandatory future of “either/or”—either a successful family or a successful...