Word: smarts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...naïve freshman in the fall of 2006, I was initially fooled by the fashionable first few weeks. I skipped through the Yard loving life—what a perfect place to be! I fit right in here. I was excited to be part of this smart, well-dressed, and all-around well put together society. I had chosen the right institution after all.Little did I know what lay ahead in the coming weeks. Cue the horror music. I truly felt like I was in a scary movie when the first signs of a frigid fall came along. Apparently...
...Watching her play, most people would be surprised that she is a freshman because she is just so smart on the court,” said senior hitter Katherine McKinley. “She is really a unique situation...
...Dahlia Lithwick counters that this argument diminishes Palin just as much. "Why do we keep talking about women as though they lack any agency? Are we really going to condemn the McCain campaign for treating her as an object, with demands that they "free" her? I understand why smart women in the media are enraged with Palin's refusal to engage them. It's appalling. But I don't think it's good for women to direct that rage at her male keepers, handlers, or advisers, either...
Michelle Obama is tall, smart, funny, relaxed and basically so glowy and poised - if she's attractive in pictures, she's flat-out gorgeous in person - that it almost seems as if she already is the First Lady...
...acuities of this smart, sweet, bordering-on-adorable romantic comedy is its awareness that by senior year, teens have been stuck for so long in their designated roles - nerd, vamp, rebel hottie - that they feel like indentured servants to them. The most agreeable myth of the movie, directed by Peter Sollett and scripted by Lorene Scafaria, from a novel by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, is that spending a night in New York City can crack the shell of stereotype to reveal your utterly cool inner life to someone who turns out to be your soul mate. For Nick, that...