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...you’re stuck with allergies, you apparently shouldn’t even go outside unless it’s early morning or late afternoon. Maybe now professors will finally accept histamines as an excuse for missing paper deadlines...
...rocket science—it is simply a common sense technique to inform people that you’re available (and interested) without being pathetically straightforward about it. If done properly, it is the most successful way to bring you closer to grabbing up your future partner (Unless, of course, you resort to knocking him across the head with a club and dragging him back to your dorm room...
...person. If you enter a room with a stern face and gruff, stand-offish demeanor, even I would run away. Second, although it may go against your Harvard instinct, master the art of small talk. That doesn’t mean you should talk about the weather—unless you’re trying to engage an ESPP concentrator with your knowledge of tropical depressions—but it does mean you should seize the opportunity to make an impression on somebody in a low-key manner...
...biggest non-Katrina event this week will be the Senate floor vote on the confirmation of John Roberts as Chief Justice. Both sides say the vote will be at least in the high sixties. Unless there is a filibuster, which Democrats say will not occur, he needs only a simple majority. "This was the president's first time at bat for the Supreme Court, and he hit a homer," said Sean Rushton, executive director of the conservative Committee for Justice. Republican sources say that if the floor vote occurs Thursday, as scheduled, Bush might announce his nominee to replace Justice...
...courts for failing to provide sufficient evidence for conviction in his cases. "Several cases prepared by Garzón have ended without convictions," she noted, "which makes one wonder whether there are failures in his preparation. Often one can have moral conviction that someone is guilty, but unless it can be proved there is no case." That has prompted speculation that Judge Garzón, who is currently on sabbatical in New York, may be gradually moved out of the spotlight he has enjoyed in a number of high-profile human-rights and terrorism cases...