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While I-banking may be Krinsky’s long-term plan, writing a sex column for a professional newspaper is her immediate dream. She is pursuing internships at America’s finest journals, including Maxim, Stuff and Glamour. Asked if she would ever consider a post at Playboy, Krinsky replies “in a second...
While Krinsky’s column may not soon replace the standard dorm room library—Maxim, Cosmo, Glamour, Playboy, Black Tail—it has, at least for the moment, earned a place among those sacred ranks. Krinsky says she receives enthusiastic feedback from other colleges. “I receive a lot of e-mails from people at Duke,” Krinsky confesses...
Every team is in first place on opening day, goes an old baseball maxim. Hope and possibility abound. Unless you are a member of the impossibly hopeless Montreal Expos. Then opening day is just the first chord of a season-long funeral march. "I like to use the analogy of someone who has been told he has a terminal illness," says Expos president Tony Tavares, who prays fans will buy tickets, if only to pay their last respects...
Because of the easily accessible nature of her thesis topic, Chou says that “everyone had opinions and advice.” Even after handing in her Maxim opus, she still enjoys perusing the stacks of friends’ Maxims she has piled up on her bedroom floor. Upon spotting an article detailing the intricacies of dumping a dead body, she says, “You never know what they’re going to come up with next...
...jokes comprise an under-appreciated Maxim Delivery System (MDS for short). They can express important insights into the human condition yet retain a staying power that preachy sayings generally lack. On that note, let me offer three jokes intended to convey practical wisdom that I wish I had digested more completely as an undergrad...