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...dimly lit den on the eve of a major German offensive in March 1918 don't question the war or even talk much about it. They don't make speeches about lost comrades or pine for sweethearts back home whom they may never see again. They just eat and sleep, relieve one another on guard duty and complain about the meat cutlets. They do their duty, simply because there's nothing else...
...March 1st. I think this is because somehow they sense that the equinox is approaching, and soon the darkness of winter will be eaten away by more and more light each day. This idea excites us enough that we eventually push our clocks ahead and lose an hour of sleep so that in our excitement we can greet the day earlier. But despite all of this, to me, March 1st holds a more noteworthy quality. In Missouri, it is the first day of trout season and in my hometown in the Ozarks, Trout...
...guide to vigilante justice. 1) Publicly allege that Adams has returned to its elitist roots and discriminates against whatever race you happen to be. 2) Revenge and prosper: empty the toilet paper roll dispenser, conveniently located on your way out. 3) Go to breakfast. Strike the gong. Escape as sleep-addled Adamsians struggle to apprehend you. 4) Go to lunch. Strike the gong. Accuse a nearby resident. 5) Switch the placards in the Adams tunnels, forever stranding residents in the labyrinth under Plympton Street. 6) Threaten to call a dean if you’re not swiped in. This will...
...have to undergo schooling and were able to spend that extra time on the court. “I have friends that are middle school drop-outs,” Ko says. “You know it’s hard, playing tennis. You want to sleep but you have to do to your homework. I worked my ass off.”Ko also struggled with the homeschooling dynamic. She sometimes fell dangerously behind. Once, she had to do an entire year of math and chemistry labs in one month. Although she was officially enrolled in Cambridge Academy...
...reinforces some of those old-fashioned values. There are many good reasons to wait on sex, but fear of a boyfriend leaving you should not be one of them. Certainly, any man who would leave a woman because she slept with him too soon (or didn’t sleep with him soon enough), is not a man she should even be considering as a mate in the first place. And this is not the only bad male behavior Cosmo excuses—in another article entitled “Decoding Male Behavior,” the author writes...