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...concentrations like Social Studies, a thesis is required. For a concentration like psychology, a thesis will eventually require serious research on fickle human subjects. For many concentrations, the thesis is optional, but required if you are seeking honors on your diploma. Right now it seems like a way to prove your academic mettle, a test of rigor, a brilliant idea. Next year when you see the same seniors shuffling down to brain break every night, wearing the same pajamas and desperate expression, it may start to seem like a crazy idea...
...popular rebellion in 1986 overthrew Marcos and proclaimed her President in his stead, Benigno Aquino's widow lasted more than six months; indeed, she lasted her entire six-year term. Furthermore, she retained a whiff of sanctity even as her government rotted, even as Filipinos worked hard to prove George Orwell's aphorism that saints are guilty until proven innocent. As Aquino ruled, every month seemed to diminish the political miracle of her astonishing rise to power, but she survived. And her survival guaranteed the continuation of democracy in her homeland...
...have long been an advocate of cheating. It started when my dad fooled an IRS auditor by comparing different vintages of phone book, finding an out-of-business furrier and getting me to use my Apple IIe to create a fake receipt to prove a false fur-coat donation. I'm a big fan of the statute of limitations. While some would call that tax fraud, I thought of it as preventing animal cruelty...
...prove there was something for moviegoers of both sexes this weekend - provided they love sci-fi - The Time Traveler's Wife lured nearly $20 million worth of ticket buyers to take third place. Shot nearly two years ago and financed by the now-defunct New Line Cinema, this moony love story connected with female audiences in an unusually crowded marketplace for femme films. Four of the top 10 films were romances, as couples could also choose the love-of-food bio-pic Julie & Julia, in fourth place; Katherine Heigl's The Ugly Truth, in eighth; and the she-loves...
...Olympics. While it takes a certain steely piety to wear the hijood - its slick ninja-esque style might be too assertively Muslim for some - the relative ease of sweating or swimming in something other than heavy cotton is pretty unbeatable. In certain situations, even the burqini might prove indispensable. A decade ago, when I regularly frequented Wild Wadi, Dubai's vast water park, mothers in sopping-wet clothes gamely accompanied their children down spiraling slides and endless rivers. They must have been miserable to no end, but they put up with it rather than refuse their kids the thrill...