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...didn't buy from a vending machine. It's over. Others are still carrying around the Miracle of Life [Sci 1B study guides], and hearing about your ordeal and/or your post exam shennanigans isn't making it any easier. Stop blabbering and give your exam-bound friends a foot rub...

Author: By Sarah J. Howland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Done With Exams? Well, Some of Us are Still "Laboring" | 5/11/2010 | See Source »

...Vieira, a host on the “The Today Show," was apparently so shaken by her rejection from Harvard that she visited every Saturday in some sort of holy voyage. It wouldn’t be the first time someone visited Harvard; maybe she just really wanted to rub John Harvard’s foot. But despite enrolling at Tufts University, things seem to have worked out all right...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Decision Day 2010: Rejected From Harvard | 4/2/2010 | See Source »

...such things is a different way of saying "progress." It reflects the rather starry-eyed belief that if Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his circle fall from grace, change will come immediately and Russia will morph into Europe. For years, the opposition movement's strategy has been to rub away at Putin's credibility "like drops of water on a cinderblock," as one of its leading figures, Boris Nemtsov, puts it. For most of that time, the impact of their work has fit this analogy. In the past few weeks, though, signs of something new have begun to emerge. Regular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anti-Putin Movement Gains Confidence in Russia | 3/7/2010 | See Source »

...what about Ms. Swift? I managed to track down what (I think) is her actual Facebook profile and requested to add her as a friend. She has yet to accept, and therein lies the rub: without a friend connection, there's no way to send a gift. So we should totally be Facebook friends, Taylor. I guarantee there will be some flowers in it for you. Or a ham. Take your pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gift Giving on Facebook Gets Real | 2/15/2010 | See Source »

...problem is that I can't rub this in, because she won't acknowledge it. I forward her every article about the car's problems, but she keeps saying, "It's fine!" as if this were some kind of Salem witch trial for liberals. Even though Toyota's website says to immediately remove the driver's-side floor mat because the accelerator can get stuck, she won't do it. In a car we drive our baby in. This is a woman who won't give our son nonorganic blueberries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joel Stein: My Prius Problem | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

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