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...Outright lying remains less common than massaging the truth, but it still happens. A letter might include lines like, "Bill has been promoted, and Johnny made National Honor Society," when a more truthful missive would have read, "Bill got arrested for drunk driving, and Johnny has converted the garage into a meth...
...have to go overboard with compliments, but a sincere “he seems really nice” is the right way to go. Of course, if he seems like a total tool, don’t feel like you have to praise him, but avoid criticizing him outright. Exclaiming, “what a Neanderthal!” will not make her realize she’s actually in love with you and has been all along, but it probably will make her reconsider her choice in friends. If he’s obviously not suited...
...have recently had an awkward email encounter with my concentration’s department program administrator, wherein she intimated that I was mentally unfit to write a thesis and outright told me that my “status as an honors joint concentrator is in serious jeopardy.” What’s more, she sent this e-mail to me 24 hours before the first 20 pages of my thesis are due to the department— talk about bad timing. What is an appropriate response? Mail-bombing the Barker Center? Poisoning the tea at the department?...
...ready to defend ourselves because we are not ready to be colonized again by any sort of troops in the world." Without those peacekeepers, however, the two sides seem destined to clash. A face-off would surely drag Ethiopia and Eritrea into a proxy--if not outright--war. The Islamists' stated aim to unite all of Somalia is believed to include the secular breakaway territories of Puntland and Somaliland, as well as portions of Kenya and Ethiopia. Once fighting has begun, there's little to prevent Somalia from becoming a conflict that could engulf the Horn of Africa, cause horrific...
...this highly competitive sport of squash,” said captain Ilan Oren, who will be starting in the second position. “Of course our immediate goal is to win the Ivy title.” “This time we want to win the Ivies outright,” Sheth added. After some excruciatingly close losses last year—the most heartbreaking perhaps being the 5-4 loss to the Tigers, which made it impossible for the Crimson to clinch sole possession of the Ivy title—the team this year hopes to learn...