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...video-nerd one-upmanship, Vol. 2 is a relationship movie, a character study. It focuses on a handful of ornery but ordinary folks--the three remaining killers--and the flashes of rancor, jealousy, ennui and humor that illuminate their lives in the moments before the Bride tries to end them. The two brothers even achieve a reflective acceptance of their guilt. As Budd tells Bill, "That woman deserves her revenge. And we deserve to die." A pause. "Then again, so does she." Well, nobody's perfect...
Though there’s no doubt that internships with prestigious companies provide an excellent stepping-stone into the working community, presenting the student with some useful knowledge for after college, Harvard students overindulge in this game of one-upmanship. Competing for impressive summer positions, some spend much of their spring term flying between Boston and New York for interviews with prospective employers...
...could actually raise student workloads just as it would raise faculty workloads. The simple fact is that a J-term will substantially increase the number of days students spend in class at Harvard. But beyond this simple arithmetic, the structure of J-term could easily lend itself to one-upmanship and intense competition between students. Consider two alternative models of J-term. If classes for concentration credit are offered, the month of January—once filled with a quiescent reading period and intersession—will turn into another avenue for over-stressed students...
Vanserg is in Siberia. The Quad is the Gulag. You can’t ascend William James without a Sherpa. Our dinnertime conversation bears a passing resemblance to that of late-Victorian British adventurers as it degenerates into how-far-afield-have-you-gone games of one-upmanship: You had section in the Science Center? Well, I just got back from the Center for European Studies. You’ve got class in Lowell Lecture Hall? I don’t want to hear about it; I had to go to office hours in Hilles. Granted, late-Victorian British adventurers...
Last Saturday night at Daedalus, in a contest of summer story one-upmanship, a mildly inebriated Benny Sachs ’05 was named the undisputed victor when he whipped out his finest summer accomplishment—his newly pierced penis. The scene, which one witness equated to a tad pole dangling from a meat hook, garnered looks of horror from friends. The normally staid Benny explained why he opted to have a steel ring pierced through the head of his beloved member and out of the end of his urethra as the first decoration on his otherwise...