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Today's Metro Highlights
-Transfers want to stay: Some New Orleans college students don't want to return
This article is about how five of the seven students who were transferred from some random school in New Orleans to Harvard University after Katrina are talking about just... not going back. Gee, I wonder why that could be? I wonder if maybe Harvard is a little better than their random school? I wonder if maybe this seems like a huge step up they might ordinarily never have gotten? You don't have to be Harvard quality to recognize that a Harvard degree would be nice. Nobody asked the kids who transferred from the New Orleans Prestige University into Boston Community College if they're planning on staying.
-Teenagers rejecting stereotypes
This is about teenagers claiming that the're not "self-absorbed slackers, materialistic and media-saturated, apathetic and aloof in their iPod bubbles". Now, I'm most of those things and I'm not even a teen anymore. But I also answer to idealistic and wanting to change things. What really gets me is the accompanying photo, the caption of which reads "Teens taking part in a meeting of student council members in Marshfield break into impromptu dance during a lunch break." Only the teens appear to be just standing around clapping, and the woman photographed dancing is like 60 years old and dressed like a teen. Creepy.
-If you had the money, you'd put your girlfriend's uterus under surveillance, too
Tom Cruise bought a sonogram machine so he can stare into Katie Holmes' biology whenever he feels like it. Enough said.
-Quoted
A Senator from Wisconsin was quoted saying, "But I do think one thing we can all agree on is that this country is overdue for a cheesehead president. We've never had one." He's talking, evidently, about a president from the state of Wisconsin. But all I can think is, our current president is a cheesehead.
-Not from the Metro, but from another certain publication that stalks me in the mail
Warning: Boobies!
For the holidays, evidently Victoria's Secret is offering this uncomfortable little number, made entirely out of white gold, rubies, and diamonds. For the low low price of only twelve and a half million dollars! (solid diamond dangly thing not included)
This article is about how five of the seven students who were transferred from some random school in New Orleans to Harvard University after Katrina are talking about just... not going back. Gee, I wonder why that could be? I wonder if maybe Harvard is a little better than their random school? I wonder if maybe this seems like a huge step up they might ordinarily never have gotten? You don't have to be Harvard quality to recognize that a Harvard degree would be nice. Nobody asked the kids who transferred from the New Orleans Prestige University into Boston Community College if they're planning on staying.
-Teenagers rejecting stereotypes
This is about teenagers claiming that the're not "self-absorbed slackers, materialistic and media-saturated, apathetic and aloof in their iPod bubbles". Now, I'm most of those things and I'm not even a teen anymore. But I also answer to idealistic and wanting to change things. What really gets me is the accompanying photo, the caption of which reads "Teens taking part in a meeting of student council members in Marshfield break into impromptu dance during a lunch break." Only the teens appear to be just standing around clapping, and the woman photographed dancing is like 60 years old and dressed like a teen. Creepy.
-If you had the money, you'd put your girlfriend's uterus under surveillance, too
Tom Cruise bought a sonogram machine so he can stare into Katie Holmes' biology whenever he feels like it. Enough said.
-Quoted
A Senator from Wisconsin was quoted saying, "But I do think one thing we can all agree on is that this country is overdue for a cheesehead president. We've never had one." He's talking, evidently, about a president from the state of Wisconsin. But all I can think is, our current president is a cheesehead.
-Not from the Metro, but from another certain publication that stalks me in the mail
Warning: Boobies!
For the holidays, evidently Victoria's Secret is offering this uncomfortable little number, made entirely out of white gold, rubies, and diamonds. For the low low price of only twelve and a half million dollars! (solid diamond dangly thing not included)
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Haha, Myth's a cheesehead in multiple ways.
And I bet you anything my roommate would buy that bra thing.