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...rise and on the make, with a practiced smile that can impress the cops and please the ladies. When he meets Madolyn, the shrink, he suavely spouts this apercu: "Freud said the Irish were the only people who were impervious to psychoanalysis." (The "impervious" is a lovely touch - it tells you Colin has rehearsed this line in his head - as is the oenophile's smoothness with which Damon spits out that mouthful of words.) The lies he has to tell to be successful in his job are so much a part of him, he might have ceased fretting about them...
...professor of chemical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who has worked in France, recounts the end of a very friendly conversation with a thirtysomething Dutch couple at a restaurant in Amsterdam this summer. "I like you, and I like Americans," said the man. "But I have to tell you that my generation here in Holland is moving toward seeing the U.S. the way we saw Nazi Germany in 1944." Astrid Rosenwirth, 25, an Austrian political-science student, lived in the U.S. for four years and likes lots about the country, including a "tolerance and inclusiveness that Austria will...
Every day, in Targets and Wal-Marts across the country, those two brands go at it. Which one do you give your kid? It depends on how old your child is, obviously, but as any good supermom will tell you, Baby Einstein is the choice of parents who want their daughter to speak Swahili by seventh grade and go to Harvard. They leave Barbies for people who, they imagine, just want their daughter to have a smile on her face and go to a great state college...
...were surprised to learn that seven of the 11 studies showed the drug was no better than a placebo at relieving nasal congestion. Part of the problem may be that there's a lot more variation in people's response to this particular pill, making it difficult to tell if it really works--and for whom...
...bullshit. Though Will [Brownsberger] and I are on opposite sides of the political spectrum, we’ve found a way to work civilly together. And besides that, if you meet Libby for more than five minutes, you know she doesn’t just do what others tell her to do.” The debate was moderated by comedian and blogger Baratunde R. Thurston ’99. When asked how she felt that both moderator and opponent were Harvard men, Firenze, a Bentley College grad, responded, “I’m not intimidated...