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...girl to like you. Sometimes it takes years! Whatever happens, just don't act desperate. Girls don't like desperate boys. So what do you do if you have a crush on a girl? You need to get her to like you. You can also show off a skill, like playing soccer or anything else you're good at. If you are in elementary school, try to get a girl to like you, not to love you. Wait until middle school to try to get her to love you. Otherwise, you have to hold on to her for a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Talk to Girls | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...panels arbitrated by Nobel laureates, and painful comp processes. Yet unlike any of these, house life is not for anything. You can’t put the fact that you went to a house formal on your resume. “IM dodgeball” is not a marketable skill. And the people you play pool with in the basement are never going to secure you a position with Goldman Sachs...

Author: By Marina S. Magloire | Title: House and Home | 12/9/2008 | See Source »

...awkward, especially religious ones. It’s not that there’s anything wrong with them, it’s just that people’s real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, “not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care”—in a word, awkward. (Merriam Webster) . And on the whole, our generation would rather disengage than risk stepping on an awkward landmine. This is why we don’t have relationships or read books anymore...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: Generation Awkward | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...important we had a solid class coming in this season, and we did. It’s really important to bring that fresh blood in, especially kids that haven’t just been fencing in college. They bring a lot of diversity in their skill set. They haven’t just been fencing the same people, so they’re a little stronger.” The weekend marked the end of an educational fall season for the Crimson, who saw a number of new faces on the mats as well as a few fencers returning from...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Youth Carries Mixed Effort | 12/7/2008 | See Source »

...man—Martin, Frank Martin—who’s followed by death and fantastic explosions everywhere he goes. Unlike Bond, however, you may not have heard of Martin, and it would probably be best to keep it that way. Jason Statham plays Martin, a man whose skill and precision behind the wheel are unrivalled, leading him to become—you guessed it—the Transporter. His job is simple: move precious cargo from one place to another. As such, he has three rules: never change the deal, no names, and never open the package. Inevitably...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Transporter 3 | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

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