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...public eventually, right? I ended up wearing a sign pinned to my lapel to explain my inability to speak, but I couldn't figure out the right wording. I'd change it, like, every day. If the wording was too soft, people would think I was doing an art project, like, "Hey, I'm trying to do this not-speaking thing. Please support me in this." But then on the other end if I got too extreme with it, people would be like, "Oh my God, are you O.K.?" I couldn't quite figure...
Unlike the art supplement submissions that Harvard College accepts as part of its application—which might include videos in the form of DVDs for admissions officers' eyes only—these YouTube shorts are for public viewing (or humiliation, depending on how you view them...
...city of Vancouver and the ski village of Whistler are terrific hosts for these Olympic Games. The air is clean, the public transit is scarily efficient, and the harbors, with snowcapped mountains for a backdrop, are picturesque. Whistler, two hours to the north and home to the skiing, sliding and Nordic events, is a winter wonderland. But let's face it: if public intoxication were an Olympic sport, Vancouver and Whistler would own the podium...
...dating back to Atlanta in 1996, agreed with my chart-topping assessment. In reference to downtown Vancouver's main strip of nightclubs, he said, "Granville Street itself is unlike anything I've seen at an Olympics." And he noted that all the drinking has led to a lot of public urinating. "I've personally witnessed about 8 to 10 guys whizzing at once along a fence half a block off the main street," he said. "It's like the infield at the Kentucky Derby...
When I asked a reveler if there was too much public intoxication in Vancouver, he responded, "There should be more." A roofer by day, he told me he had just consumed 8 to 10 beers - and he looked like it. "The police are too strict," he said. "One of them poured out my beer - and I wasn't even drunk yet." At 2 a.m., Granville Street was still packed, and there were plenty of drunks wandering about. Vancouver appeared to have more morons per square foot than the Jersey Shore house...