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...good days (and love has a lot of them), all this seems to make perfect sense. Nearly 30 years ago, psychologist Elaine Hatfield of the University of Hawaii and sociologist Susan Sprecher now of Illinois State University developed a 15-item questionnaire that ranks people along what the researchers call the passionate-love scale. Hatfield has administered the test in places as varied as the U.S., Pacific islands, Russia, Mexico, Pakistan and, most recently, India and has found that no matter where she looks, it's impossible to squash love. "It seemed only people in the West were goofy enough...
Shahriyar must have felt it, too, because he quickly heads off to travel the world with his vizier Qamar (Aseem A. Shukla ’11). Shukla’s perfomance was the perfect foil to Leaf’s nervy, wild-eyed flights of philosophical longing. As Shahriyar desperately hovered “between the earth and the heavens,” Qamar stayed rooted firmly to the ground...
...need to have a perfect defense [to have a shutout],” Vaillancourt said. “Our defense has been working so hard in practices, and it’s just so beautiful to see them play...
...Classroom experiences are not always what students, faculty, administrators, TFs, or TAs would ideally like them to be. I know that the adviser/advisee matches made in freshman and sophomore year and in concentrations for general and thesis advising are not always perfect. But, I also know that this community is made up of human beings who have a lot in common. We are all moved by our love of learning and see ourselves as works in progress. We all experience love and loss, joy and sorrow. We all take our world—both inside and outside our gates?...
...sting was especially harsh for Carroll, who is close to Bowman's mother, Joyce, and had coached Bowman for 18 years. The two began lessons when Bowman was five, and Carroll, remembers first laying eyes on baby Christopher and thinking, "this is the most perfect child I've ever seen...