My undergraduate roommate, Joel, and I had become fairly friendly with our upstairs neighbor in our off-campus apartment junior year. I don’t know about Joel, but I thought it was fun to have an acquaintance who had a real job. Everyone else we knew was a student. Craig seemed much
My best friends growing up were three brothers who introduced me to–among other things–The Silly Book, and the cartoon character, “Boodleheimer.” It would be difficult, almost 50 years down the road, to overestimate the extraordinary joy that Rod, Paul, Frank, and I got from the following verse of the “Silly
Question One: Your five-year-old daughter comes home from kindergarten with a paper that the children have worked on in class, writing letters or distinguishing shapes or colors. Your daughter’s page does not contain a sticker, although you have noticed that most papers that come home from school do have a
My limited understanding of the mortgage debacle was that there were “bunches” of bundled debts, some of which were supposed to be “good” mortgages and some of which were understood to be “not so good” mortgages. Shockingly, it turned out that each and every one of the mortgages in the
Between “Kind Hearts and Coronets”, arguably the best film ever made, and “Star Wars”, the one with the most Wookies, Alec Guinness won an Oscar in 1957 for best actor in “Bridge Over the River Kwai”. As the commander of his fellow allied prisoners, Colonel Nicholson is tasked with erecting
Disgruntled ex-lovers can now post inappropriate pictures of a previous inamorata on a number of websites designed specifically for this unpleasant purpose. In a world where a photo of your daughter in the nude or worse could be seen by anyone with a computer, it comes as no surprise that
I’m not usually one to complain, but when a hotel advertises hot and cold running champagne, you don’t expect the Jacuzzi to run out of Dom Perignon so quickly. Not to mention that I specifically asked for imported cucumbers to be placed on my eyes at the spa so you
I don’t want to die stupid. Note the importance of the punctuation mark or lack thereof. A grouchy hiker arguing over the choice of paths might exclaim, “I don’t want to die, Stupid.” There is no comma in my sentence: “I don’t want to die stupid.” I’m using “stupid” as
Two generations ago it was a big deal to come back to your dorm room and find a tie hanging over the doorknob. The implications were as staggering as they were rare: a tie on the door meant your roommate was with a girl in your dorm room! An actual,
What no one acknowledges-parents, teachers, administrators, elected officials-is what every high school student already knows. The great unspoken, tacit agreement throughout our culture in general and our schools in particular, is that every student can learn every subject at the same level of proficiency. The reality is that in our
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