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...only returning player who has ever started a college game is junior captain Jason Norman. He started the final eight games, averaging 9.0 points and 3.0 rebounds per game during that stretch, which included a 20-point outburst against Yale. The southpaw small forward will strive to be more consistent this year, he said...
Although the ideas animating these kinds of thoughts were no doubt praiseworthy, Fawcett hammered them home in an almost unrelentingly preachy way, interspersing them among dialogue that seemed, on occasion, to strive for naturalism and psychological poignancy. Sadly, even the play’s handful of jokes fell flat; most notably, at the end of a lengthy double-entendre monologue punning on baking terms with sexual allusions, the punchline was something to the effect of “Oh, I always love baking cakes.” There is no subtlety in The River...
...concepts in social psych is self-presentation—the way we present ourselves to the world around us. A person’s self-presentation is often complicated as they strive to ingratiate ourselves with others, get ahead in their careers and generally climb the ladder as is expected. People adjust their self-presentation to their environment—here at Harvard, where everyone is clawing to get ahead all the time, people can have particularly diverse and incongruent selves. Call me crazy (my roommate does it all the time), but I think that the pressure we experience...
...overpowering. I know that I can’t speak for everyone, but in my experience, it has usually been better in the long run to take off my costume and get busy being who I really am (preferably with a partner), than to keep wearing it and strive for something that won’t end up making me happy anyway. I guess Psych has been an earth-shattering experience after...
There is no way to stay 100 percent safe from scary monsters that might lurk in the cosmos, but it would be paranoid and self-defeating to avoid exploration out of vague fears of the unknown. With planetary protection, we strive to insure that, through the marvelous tricks of space exploration, we do not give or receive any unwelcome and dangerous planetary treats...