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...best we could have with the funds we had, and we were really happy with the results,” Mee said. “I wouldn’t change a thing...
...most talented, some of the wealthiest (but perhaps not some of the best-looking) young people in the country. Somehow in the struggle to cope with all the talent and prestige, with the sliding scale of relative happiness in constant flux, we criticize. We cling to the thing about ourselves we find distinctive. We fear so passionately that somebody might have everything—brains, looks, social connections, a sense of humor—that we tear down and pick apart. Nobody should have a beach house in Antigua and a summa thesis. Nobody should be a Class Marshal...
...important thing in this paper is the verification of the threshold effect, not the estimated numbers,” said Dr. Naoki Kondo, another author of the study...
...Mayer compares his failing relationship to a “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” dynamic, singing, “I was a killer / Was the best they’d ever seen / I’d steal your heart / Before you ever heard a thing / I’m an assassin and I had a job to do / Little did I know that girl was an assassin too.” Mayer’s knack for dissecting the nuances of relationships ultimately make his narratives far more captivating this time around...
...Mentally it might’ve been a tough game to play UConn after they beat us [but] on the flip side it would’ve been a chance for our guys to prove that that was a one-time thing,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said. “In some ways you want a chance to play a team a second time [but] on other hand you don’t want that mental baggage of a game earlier in the season hanging over you [because] it can provide motivation or worry...