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...understand why the candidates don't want to go near these issues. "Sympathy and subtlety," notes Tom Murray of the Hastings Center for bioethics, "are seasonings rarely applied to political red meat." We have reached a point in our political discourse when candidates are punished less for flatly lying than for changing their minds. You can caricature your opponent, airbrush your record, come close to just making things up and suffer less than if you're caught with a belief that has evolved. The political term for flexible is flip-flopper...
Shortly after, I ran into movie producer Harvey Weinstein, who, for some reason, owns Halston. When I asked him why he bought it, Weinstein said, "I'm a red-blooded American male. I get to hang out with models." We both laughed a particularly creepy kind of laugh, and then he said, "You and I know the least about fashion in this room. But I bet you can tell me Ty Cobb's batting average." Yes, I told him, I sure could. Unfortunately, he then asked me what Ty Cobb's batting average was. I said, ".421," with...
...were free!Sure we had our flaws. Perhaps we should have been reading “On the Road” along the way rather than David Sedaris. But certainly the free-lovers would still allow us to partake of their Kool-Aid, right?But instead of delicious red fruit-punch nectar, I found five-dollar-a-cup, more-ice-than-liquid lemonade sold from one of hundreds of stands waiting to take all your money as you stood dehydrated in the Southern sun. There were tents sponsored by television stations, software corporations, and Major League Baseball...
...Freshmen awkwardly looking for someone to sit with were replaced by freshmen awkwardly looking for dance partners, groups of freshmen girls dancing in protective entryway clusters, and overly enthusiastic males attempting to infiltrate these clusters. In front of the dancers were scattered Crimson Key Society members, recognizable by their red sweatshirts and unassailable pep. Not allowed to fraternize with the impressionable innocents per unspoken policy, the Keysters instead acted to prevent anyone from getting too close to D.J. Peter “Petros” C. Shields ’09, already the recipient of his fair share of fans?...
...It’s far too soon to tell,” he said. “Trying to tell someone that age not to drink Red Bull is like telling them not to go to a bar. It’s just done so frequently...