February 2012
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“[“GCB”] probes its viewers to pick a side; if you really must, go...”
– Rich Juzwiak on the wholly unlikeable new comedy-soap “GCB”
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Your must-read Coquette of all time
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So, I’m 22 years old and I finally lost my virginity last weekend. I’m not dating the guy, but we have been seeing each other for a few months. I was raised to believe your virginity is a gift that should be saved until marriage, and my parents even gave me a purity ring, but over the past few years my own religious views have evolved and changed and I don’t identify with...
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“I honestly believe our table was the nicest table to him just because we had a...”
– High school junior Nate Mueller told The Daily that he and his buddies tried to be nice to T.J. Lane because they had a gut feeling he would come after them someday at their Ohio school.
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Mother Jones obtains Syrian government hit list... →
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From Mother Jones:
A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they...
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“Snubs abounded, gimmicks were conflated with depth (“The Artist” scored five...”
– Rich Juzwiak on the (yawn) 2012 Oscars.
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Dear Coquette: On why boring bugs you
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After a year and a half, I finally realized why my roommate’s boyfriend bugs me: He’s boring. He’s a perfectly nice, perfectly attractive, perfectly successful functioning adult, but he has nothing terribly interesting to say, or at least not to me. Then, when my roommate is together with her boyfriend, she feeds off his Wonderbread loaf of a personality and ceases to be an...
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“For two weeks, Lin looked like one of the best players in the NBA, which in...”
– Sports Columnist Dan Wolken weighs in on whether or not the Miami Heat shut down the Linsanity.
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