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...shard Lee!" They greeted me with my customary stupid nickname. I'm not quite sure how I acquired that particular one, but, then again, we all had our own stupid nicknames of unknown origins. One more indication that things hadn't changed...
...both laughed, but not at the joke--comments like these have become almost instinctive over the years. Mainly, we were just happy to be reliving the good ole' days of our high school friendship. Happy we could mock each other without being offensive. Happy we could still make stupid jokes without feeling stupid ourselves...
...with some of my closest friends from back home, many of whom I hadn't seen since last September. But what I was looking forward to the most was our casual, somewhat childish attitudes towards each other. Contrary to life at Harvard, back home we all felt comfortable making stupid conversation and resorting to humor of the lowest common denominator. And, after spending a year in an environment of such intellectualism and personal growth, it would be a nice change of pace simply to regress...
...more minutes of mindless banter, and we eventually got around to bowling. But the childishness continued. We were loud and obnoxious. We offered condescending advice when someone screwed up and gave grudging respect when someone bowled well. We made stupid jokes and laughed at everything and anything...
...Bill Clinton in China? It's the economy, stupid. The President got down to the business of showcasing China's economic potential Tuesday in the powerhouse city of Shanghai -- the white-hot engine of that nation's furious economic growth. At a roundtable with local business and civic leaders, and later on -- of all things -- a talk-radio show, he heaped praise on China for resisting the pressure to devalue its currency and emphasized the cooperation between the two countries over the Asian financial crisis as a model of partnership. He spoke of "a new China emerging in the world...