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...tomorrow, someone else will. On the other hand, you can err on the side of fun and multiply anonymity by how many drinks you’ve had. Do this if you’re 20 years old and still a wallflower.Remember, this ratio is just a rule of thumb designed to keep you grounded when you can’t trust your first instinct about appropriate behavior. There are certain notable conditions under which calculating the Non-Sketchy ratio will not sufficiently lead to the best course of action. If you have one of those final club-hopping...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Ratios and Ragers | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

Remember, this ratio is just a rule of thumb designed to keep you grounded when you can’t trust your first instinct about appropriate behavior. There are certain notable conditions under which calculating the Non-Sketchy ratio will not sufficiently lead to the best course of action. If you have one of those final club-hopping TFs, his presence at a party would make even a slurred sentence way too sketchy. Leave immediately. If you spot your crush across the room right as you begin to hop up on the keg to perform the gargoyle, do a leapfrog...

Author: By Charleton A. Lamb, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Ratios and Ragers | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...lectern. He speaks with the kind of proper British accent that makes Anglophiles swoon. As he makes an argument about the French Revolution, his throat wraps around certain words with a silky aggression that he punctuates by cocking an eyebrow or gesturing with his left hand, index finger and thumb closed into an “o” around a stub of chalk. His words are actually improvised. His paper schedule book, full of cross-country speaking engagements...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professors Who Rock Harvard | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

...sort of signal that he would be welcome" at the embassy, says Paulo Sotero, director of the Brazil Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. - Brasília finds itself in the kind of diplomatic spotlight it once shunned. Chávez never misses a chance to thumb his nose at U.S. influence in Latin America, and since he'd grown impatient with what he considered the Obama Administration's too tepid efforts to lean on the Honduras coup leaders and get his ally Zelaya returned to power, he decided it was time to bring Lula deeper into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil Reluctantly Takes Key Role in Honduras Dispute | 9/30/2009 | See Source »

...suddenly very attentive crowd, a strange bit of physics working itself out in our economy. The problem is related to a hiccup in an economic rule called Okun's law. First mooted by economist Arthur Okun in 1962, the law (it's really more of a rule of thumb) says that when the economy grows, it produces jobs at a predictable rate, and when it shrinks, it sheds them at a similarly regular pace. It's a labor version of how the accelerator on your car works: add gas, go faster; less gas, go slower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jobless in America: Is Double-Digit Unemployment Here to Stay? | 9/11/2009 | See Source »

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