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...this wonderful woman last fall. This month we started dating. I care about her deeply, but there's one problem--I just found out she has three roommates. I think they are hesitant to accept me into their lives. These girls resent my presence in the common room, and they are now competing against me for their roommate's attention. They frequently throw tantrums in front of us, and say things like, "You're not as neat as Kim's first boyfriend." How can I gain their trust and affection? --New Man in Her Life...
...president, Jung Il Kim is viewed by most Koreans as pampered and spoiled. Unlike most spoiled children, however, he has tangible power in North Korea and has used it to repress basic freedoms and violate civil rights. Most Koreans resent him and his imminent ascension to the presidency...
Even Mallinkrodt Professor of Chemistry GeorgeM. Whitesides '60, who was teaching Chem 17, didnot resent the interruption to his chalk boardcalculations...
Basketball is a team sport, but Michael Jordan often played it as if he were all alone. Call it genius or call it selfishness -- the two traits often overlap -- but Jordan sometimes seemed to resent the fact that he had four teammates on the floor with him. His talent was so singular that he was often competing only against himself, against the memory of his last impossible dunk, his last acrobatic steal, his last whizzing cross-court assist. And in the end, that kind of competition bored...
...irony comes through: The album-closing, cleanly-played, slow-unto-death "Junkie on a Good Day" (a love-rock version of the Velvets' "Heroin") brings home the angst the fast tunes have been hiding. "Friends," which they've been performing for years, is at least as much about resenting your friends as it is about enjoying them. You have to have friends to resent 'em, though: After two great singles and three years of crowded club shows, this first full-length release should make Small Factory several thousand new ones...