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Valentine’s Day is a vomit-inducing holiday. It never ceases to remind me of Michael Warner’s postulation that happy couples are actually akin to hegemonic sexual dictators who cast single people as dangerous, perverted “others...
...most of my high school classes. My life has been a compromise of cultures that didn’t always mesh well. Jamaican culture, sometimes to my parents’ dismay, has not always won the fight. I don’t know how to cook the meals that remind me of home. I like to shop more than I like to do most things. And when I go to Jamaica my younger cousins mock my American “twang,” telling me that I sound just like the people on MTV. Wouldn?...
Should we give up all the fruits of the sexual revolution because of the confusion it has also brought us? My mother is quick to remind me that she always wished she could follow the advice of How to Be Assertive, the self-help book of her time, and just ask a guy out. In the end, the way to stop being lame may be to recognize how lame we are. Many women told me that laughing at the pathetically obsessive behaviors of the women in He’s Just Not That Into You is part of the book?...
There was a small group of Ivy aficionados who remained uneasy. They remembered what CN8 would later remind all those who tuned in: Feb. 9, 1999 at The Palestra. The Quakers led the Tigers 40-13 only to lose 50-49. A 37-9 run closed out quite possibly the wildest game in Ivy history...
...saga hadn’t ended quite yet. Danley missed a jumper that would have put the Quakers ahead for the first time in the game. The Tigers got a stop. Logan went to the line. The CN8 announcers made sure to remind the viewers once again that Princeton was among the top 10 best free-throw shooting teams in the county. Unfazed and unjinxed, Logan nailed the first. The second, however, met with a much less auspicious fate...