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...popcorn chicken or something like that.3. FM: Then why so much squash? And what’s your favorite variety?TAM: I like the Delicata, that’s my favorite variety.* Why so much squash? Well, that’s where we commissioned the forty thousand pounds. I mean, it’s local. (Laughs) I can imagine people are beginning to get tired of it. Everybody thinks that’s all we’re serving. But there’s good reason behind it.*[Editor’s note: For readers with unrefined palettes, that?...
...feeling.” Harvard Kennedy School professor Thomas E. Patterson also said that student interest in politics was not fleeting. “I do think this moment has created a lot of interest,” he said, “and I don’t mean simply the Obama moment. Interest has been on the rise. The real driver [in 2004, when youth turnout also increased] was the Iraq war, and when that turned sour, there was a real sense that things were really going wrong here.” Student voters themselves said they planned...
...violation of... well... any semblance of common sense. After all, what would I do with Billy on those late nights studying in Lamont? What about my propensity to sleep past my alarm clock —how would I have time to walk him in the morning? I mean, Lindsay, c’mon?...
...piss you off when people keep their status as busy all the time? And every time you want to Gchat with someone, you see the infamous “So-and-So is busy. You may be interrupting.” I may be interrupting? What does that even mean? If you’re actually busy, then why do you still contact me? Can we talk or not? Stop confusing me. In the words of Good Ol’ Willy Shakespeare: “To thine ownself be true.” Cut the crap and let your status...
...bring people together will mean nothing if he just does what's already easy. He has to find real Republicans to put in real Cabinet positions, not just Transportation. He needs to use his power in ways that make both parties equally unhappy, to dust off the weighty words we need to hear, not just the uplifting ones - like austerity, sacrifice, duty to the children we keep borrowing from. The national debt passed $10 trillion in September; in the next month, we added $500 billion to it - the fastest, deepest plunge into red ink in more than 50 years. Will...