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The Daily Princetonian

Trivializing tragedy

It is 10:02 p.m. on April 15, 2013. Right now, across the country, dozens are huddled in front of their television sets or staring at open browser tabs of CNN, Fox News, The New York Times and their Twitter feeds, feverishly devouring updates on the situation in Boston.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

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The great divide

?Do STEM majors get laid?? Of all the questions posed to me by various prefrosh during Preview, this was probably the only one that required a great deal of thought.

OPINION | 04/16/2013

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Our reputation

Susan Patton uncovered my greatest fear. One day, I will grow old. My ideas and dispositions will be outmoded, and the younger generation will ridicule me as antiquated and intellectually feeble.

OPINION | 04/15/2013

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A formula for friendship

My grandmother, as she sips on her 5 p.m. gin and tonic, frequently dispenses the following piece of wisdom: “If you have as many friends as you do fingers on one hand, you’re incredibly lucky.” This is a woman who has been happily married for 50 years now and has reached the melancholic, yet inevitable, stage of life when friends begin to pass away, leaving more empty seats at her dinner parties every year.

OPINION | 04/11/2013

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Picking Princetonians

The admission officers here do not have an easy job. They are charged with the task of sifting through thousands of applications and admitting just a sliver of the total applicant pool.

OPINION | 04/10/2013