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...that I am, it never occurred to me. I once knew a therapist, and I said to him, "When you go to a party or a dinner, you must think about people in terms of what their hang-ups and problems are, right?" And he said, "No, I just throw it out the window. Obviously if someone is flagrantly neurotic or OCD, I'm going to notice it as a professional. But generally I manage to keep my social life strictly social." I would say what's happened with me is the same thing. People say, "How am I doing...
After a scoreless first period, Harvard offensive standout Louis Leblanc left the game early in the second after taking a blow to his head from the puck. Leblanc was reportedly in good spirits after the contest, and the Crimson did not allow his removal to throw off its game...
Every Jan. 6, Greeks celebrate Epiphany with a ceremony full of symbolism and hope. All over the country, priests throw a gold cross into open water and young men dive in to retrieve it. The winners get a blessing on the spot; everyone else takes home some holy water for a trouble-free new year. Newly elected Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou attended ceremonies on the Aegean island of Lesbos this year, but with Greece sinking under debt and a huge budget deficit as fast as a priest's crucifix, Papandreou is going to need more than holy water...
...Although I support O'Keefe's right ... to throw metaphorical and even actual pies in the faces of his enemies, I must draw the line ... at breaking and entering under false pretenses. There is nothing wrong with standing up in public space and screaming, 'Look, the Emperor has no clothes.' There is something sleazy about sneaking into the Emperor's closet with a hidden camera...
...outset, making the later twists and turns even trickier to negotiate. "I think they are pushing it a little too much," Austrian luge athlete Hannah Campbell-Pegg told the Associated Press the day before Kumaritashvili's fatal accident. "To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we're crash-test dummies? I mean, this our lives...