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...typical female Harvard student, if there is one, is a fascinating character: usually an exceptional note-taker and a religious to-do list maker, she also arrives at her 10 a.m. lectures on time, attends office hours and leaves herself enough time to outline her essays, in detail, before she begins writing them—and to have an extra day to revise them before the ultimate deadline. Most guys, it seems, drawing upon some incredible reserve of confidence, find such efforts superfluous because their gut assures them it all will come together in the end, anyway. Insanely dedicated...
...cash his first paycheck at an ATM in a 7-Eleven in Austin, Texas. After spending several minutes trying to sign up for the service, the high school student called a help line and was told he needed a valid driver's license. "This is a super time taker," he said, and headed to a check-cashing store...
...cash his first paycheck at an ATM in a 7-Eleven in Austin, Texas. After spending several minutes trying to sign up for the service, the high school student called a help line and was told he needed a valid driver's license. "This is a super time taker," he said, and headed to a check-cashing store...
...year was 1994; the ambivalent kidnapper was British citizen Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, polyglot, chess whiz and Muslim extremist fresh from the terrorist-training camps of Afghanistan. This hostage taker, now 27 years old, has resurfaced as the prime suspect in the Jan. 23 abduction in Karachi, Pakistan, of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. For those seeking Pearl's release, the fingering of Saeed was both bad news and good. On the one hand, Saeed keeps scary company. In recent years, according to Pakistani and U.S. officials, he has become a key player in al-Qaeda. U.S. intelligence suspects...
...another field. “Sociology or anthropology—getting up close and studying a certain tribe of people.” My personality explains the continuous career-switching. “You would leave your family over and over again...You’re a risk taker.” This is not how I would have assessed my personality, but I guess that’s why she’s the psychic and I’m the elephant sociologist...