In the spirit of staying optimistic, I’m going to highlight some positives from the weekend. Just one negative though: James McClean, celebrating like that against your old club is neither sporting nor cool.Louis van Gaal got it rightI feared the worst coming into this game, especially seeing how ...
Our next president will be chosen by the likes of Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers or Trevor Noah. While that may seem absurd to many voters, it’s safe to say that 2016 will be a media election. Late-night shows are having an increasing impact on the electorate as a whole. ...
Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s Word of the Day:jurisprudencenoun \joor-us-PROO-dunss\definition: the science or philosophy of lawMy entire life, I've unknowingly lived under a duplicitous identity. My friends and family knew me as Henry Allan Jani, but Big Brother had me listed otherwise: Henry ...
Dear Parents and Family Weekend,One of my favorite ideas in life is that "everyone has a story." I feel like whenever I’m able to keep that in mind, the world becomes a better place. People become discoveries waiting to happen, and I’m put in a mindset that urges me to try and understand ...
When I moved to the United States at the age of five, I remember that I marveled to a fellow classmate about her height, noting how big she was. She burst into tears and told the teacher I called her fat. My third language was French. My first day in Paris, I endeavored to ask a Carrefour clerk where ...
Coming off Week 6 and going into one of the more painful bye weeks, this is a perfect opportunity to evaluate some flex and replacement options for Week 7. The Packers, Broncos, Bengals and Bears -- three offensive powerhouses (and da Bears) that boast a bounty of every-week fantasy starters -- have ...
If you’re looking for mystery, intrigue and confusing plot-based drama, this is your show! "Gossip Girl" (2007-2012), the teen drama series, is based on a book series, also called “Gossip Girl” (2002-2011), written by Cecily Von Ziegesar. The show follows the “scandalous lives of Manhattan’s ...
Pooja: This week, I am going to indulge in some grandmother-style musings. Rebecca and I are pretty sure that we are turning into old people -- while she sits at home watching "Longmire" (2012-present), I watch youths from a distance and criticize their every move. These past few months, I ...
My historical education in many of the Latin American countries where I've lived focused on pre-Columbian Latin America and its colonization until I attended the sixth grade world culture class in Bogota, Colombia. In primary school in El Salvador, I painted pictures (and stuck cotton balls ...
Right wing: JOHN BOEHNER IS BAD!Democrats: Yeah, cool, I think we’re on the same page on this one.Right wing: DOWN WITH BOEHNER!Democrats: Yeah! Down with him!Right wing: A REAL REPUBLICAN INSTEAD!Democrats: Wait. Wait, wait, wait. Nevermind. We take it back. Boehner is fine. Guys?Right wing: TOO ...
“In great cities, spaces as well as places are designed and built: walking, witnessing, being in public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, make shoes or love or music. The word citizen has to do with cities, and the ideal city is organized around citizenship ...
As a Tufts Writing Fellow, I recently met with a Chinese student to discuss her paper for a social science class. I was struck by the language she had used, which was more engaging than what I am used to seeing in academic papers, cushioned with metaphors and humor. It took me a couple reads to realize ...
It’s the first time in a very long time that I’ve seen the Kop so excited by the arrival of a new manager. He even has his own hashtag -- #KloppforKop. And that's because Jurgen Klopp isn’t as normal as he claims to be.What Liverpool will get is a man obsessed with the idea of a pressing attacking ...
If you are Aubrey Drake Graham, it really is a great time to be alive. The Toronto rapper’s recently released surprise collaboration album with rapper Future, “What A Time To Be Alive," debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 Chart.It was Drake’s second No. 1 album in 2015, following the success ...
I began freshman year with a mix of self-loathing, contempt, depression and a dash of delusion. I was working eight-hour shifts at a café nearby because I wanted to support myself, and thus felt that everyone else was childish and entitled. But we all know that game. I call it “cool, aloof girl that doesn't know how to express feelings.”
A predicament we face today is the menace that our wrinkle-count will one day supersede what we can count on two hands. Breaching the geriatric gates is now comparable to waltzing into one of Dante’s circles of Hell. "Waltzing" is too kind of a term. "Dragged by the undaunted claws ...
Dear Graffitists in the Tisch Bathroom,During my first major Tisch study session of college, I found myself in the first stall of the first-floor bathroom. My head was whirring with calculations of how many pages of reading I had left, how long my French homework would take and whether or not I had ...
There is no other way to begin this column than to lament the loss of superstar, centerpiece, carry-monster and fantasy mainstay -- Jamaal Charles. After wishing your top-five pick a speedy recovery from what is currently being reported as a season-ending ACL tear, you should explore backups Charcandrick ...
This week, I binge-watched “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” (2015-present). First of all, can I say, this is such a good show! Tina Fey and Robert Carlock created the sitcom, which stars Ellie Kemper, who you probably know as Erin on "The Office" (2005-2013). Unfortunately, the first season, ...
Historical fiction tends to be set in Western countries and, even then, it tends to cluster around certain places and certain time periods: Great Britain during the Tudor era, France during either the decadence of the Bourbons or the downfall of the French Revolution, the World Wars in all their various ...
