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...you’ve stolen my heart. 10) I’m checking you out, can I get your call number? 11) You’re studying for Life Sciences? Want to learn where babies come from? 12) I’m sorry, this room is for quiet study only, and your body is calling out to me. 13) Would you go in for a threesome with me and the security guard who looks like a pirate? 14) I can recite “The Waste Land.” Naked. 15) Is this the reference desk? Great, because...
...just don’t like to study in a quiet place,” says Rigol, who was studying in the Reference Room because she could find a seat there. “I’d rather have a café-style place to do work...
...first time the Houston police had heard the phrase "60-day homicide." Suspects would say, "This ain't nothing but a 60-day homicide," meaning that if they kept quiet for 60 days, they would walk--just as they had too often in New Orleans. So Houston police started letting evacuees spend a few days in jail before questioning them in depth. While they waited, the suspects talked with other inmates and had court appearances--which did not end with release. Eventually, for some, the reality of Texas law began to sink in. "As they stay here more, they seem...
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was the sleeper hit of 2005. It tells the bittersweet, perfectly observed story about Lee, a quiet Midwestern girl who tries, with decidedly mixed results, to fit in at a breathtakingly preppy Eastern private school. To the surprise of many, not least its publisher and its author, Prep spent nine weeks on the New York Times best-seller list...
Adidas has drawn the battle lines; now it's up to the consumers to decide. Not that the companies will quiet the trash talk. For example, Adidas puts the boot to Nike's worldwide youth "futsal" tournament, which features the smaller soccer ball that many great players, like Ronaldinho, grew up dribbling. "It's three on three in a cage," says Filbry. "That's not soccer." Edwards, Nike's marketing guru, guffaws. "I'm happy they would dismiss something that millions of people around the world are playing," he says. On the eve of the World Cup, jawing between...