SAMANTHA MONK: My children will not live, apparently, but I expect London will
"You," my great-aunt Margaret said to me, her eyes burning with self-righteous indignation, "are the reason your children will not live."Pause.
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Deis alum goes from 'Beauty and the Geek' to Hollywood star
"If there's one thing in this world that we can be sure of," Richard Rubin '05 proclaimed on primetime TV, "it's that I will never get laid." Nasal-voiced, awkward as hell, but officially adorable, Rubin is Brandeis' most recent star in Hollywood.When I spoke to Rubin in July, he was cruising down the streets of L.A.
SAMANTHA MONK: My rendezvous in Jamaica Plain: Leather stilettos and the phantom interviewer
I stood in a dark and dingy bar, dressed to kill-I was wearing my pointy black leather "I want this job" stilettos, a black oxford shirt and my journalist glasses, and I was ready to impress the hell out of anyone who wanted me to write for them.
SAMANTHA MONK: A morning chat with Dean Jaffe
It is a tricky thing to be both a scholar and a politician. Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe experienced this, excruciatingly, when the Faculty Review Committee systematically shot down nearly all of his proposals for academic restructuring last week.
SAMANTHA MONK: Tired and tempest-tossed
I just finished reading a book this vacation called Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Although it may be a little over-indulgent in its patriotism, it does call to mind how painless it usually is to be a British immigrant-America has a certain fondness for its mild but dignified mother country, and expat Britons quickly become used to affectionate pats on the head every time we mention tea cravings or cress sandwiches.An immigrant, however, is an immigrant.
OP-ED: Tony Blair a neo-con?
I have a crush on Tony Blair. Tall, charming, successful and filled with ambitious ideals for the betterment of mankind, he has more or less everything I look for in a man.
OP-ED: Out of touch?
At one of those big, family-weekend dinners in Boston, it had reached that point that inevitably falls somewhere in between the main course and dessert, where everyone has just about run out of interesting things to say.
OP-ED: A politician for all seasons and opinions
He's on the right side of just about every issue that matters. He's suitably liberal, but not enthusiastic enough to risk losing his dignity.
Grenada-born ambassador leads the class
In 1979, a successful, bloodless coup established the People's Revolutionary Government as leaders of the south Caribbean island of Grenada.
News Analysis: Sweden rejects unified currency
The people of Sweden have officially declared that they want no part in the single European currency.
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