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...conducting a similar study of your own life and you are also disappointed with the Internet’s paltry supply of memes, I will provide some additional questions. Keep in mind that there is no need to publish your answers. Some options are: 1) Number of times swore off psychologically destructive behavior, 2) number of people desired, attained and/or rejected (or, for that matter, the number of people by whom you have been thus treated), 3) number of amino acids consumed daily, 4) number of pants sizes increased, 5) number of times reminded yourself to talk about your significant...

Author: By Ilana J. Sichel, | Title: Quantify Your Life! | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...forged in the civil rights era and that only they can protect us from the terrifying racism of the Republican party. In exchange for empty promises and rhetoric that ages more like milk than wine, black voters turn out in droves. After 2000’s distressing election Democrats swore to us (again) that they would not let us be disenfranchised. Bush’s record is indeed abysmal, but the lack of respect that John Kerry and the Democratic establishment showed black voters is ridiculous. It is also, unfortunately, our fault...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry and Brandon M. Terry, S | Title: Runaway Slaves | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

...actually had no idea we had set the world record until one of the guys interviewing us right after the race was like, “So how does it feel to set the world record?” One of my teammates accidentally swore and was like “Holy shit! We set the world record?” and we were like “Holy shit! She just swore on national TV.”…Someone made the comment “Well yeah, it was good a thing we set the world...

Author: By J. PATRICK Coyne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Silver Medal Story | 10/7/2004 | See Source »

...loom, raw, over freshly-seeded lawns. I can no longer name the children who bicycle in wobbly circles in the street. I can no longer identify the dogs that strain, barking, against their leads when I walk my dog past. Like most of the kids from my hometown, I swore that once I got out, I’d never go back. I guess I hadn’t known it would happen so quickly...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Going Mobile | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

Tara Kirk, a Stanford senior and an Olympic-swimming-medal hopeful, swore her body was straight in the water as she raced. Then she looked at herself on the small screen. Her coach had popped open a laptop and, using a software program called Dartswim, superimposed a picture of Kirk's technique from 2002 on an image of her current form. The message was clearer than a chlorinated pool: despite some improvement, she still arched her body during the strokes, adding seconds to her time. "You can't go with what you feel," says her college coach, Richard Quick. "Tara...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold-Medal Tech | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

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