Natalie Krinsky
Natalie Krinsky
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Renegin' on a promise? Not just in politics
Last week two important political events gripped the attention of our nation. The first was President Bush's State of the Union address. In it, he told the American people that "our nation is at war, our economy is in recession and the civilized world...
Harvard back in New Haven, Krinsky back at scene
Last Saturday, I rounded up a group of my nearest and dearest and headed to TK's for a long afternoon filled with Miller Light, honey-barbecue wings and, of course, college football. At about my ninth beer, 23rd wing and second game of the day, I began...
State of the Union? Worries over deflation
Earlier this week, President Bush addressed the nation on the State of the Union. He began his speech by telling Americans, "Every year, by law and by custom, we meet here to consider the state of the union. This year, we gather in this chamber deeply...
Food is messy, but it still gives great metaphor
Ever since I started writing this column, people assume that I am a seasoned expert in a variety of things that I know nothing about. I have been pegged as an authority, a veritable Confucius of fornication. So when the good folks at the Yale Daily...
Friends: don't let friends cock-block!
Several weeks ago, a dear friend of mine was putting the moves on a new jenny from the block. He was psyched. The two had been eyeing one another for weeks, and finally, he was about to get the apple of his eye into a very compromising position.
Ambiguity: It might screw you over, it might not
My freshman year, I lived on a floor below a group of senior boys. To my untrained freshman eye they seemed perfect. They were decently handsome, decently smart and decently funny, and my suite worshiped them. Early in the year, one in particular...
You might be swapping spit in front of me --
-- but I was in The New York Times (and I got to meet Taye Diggs)
This summer my friend Amanda got a new boyfriend. Whenever Amanda gets a new boyfriend, they make out everywhere. Anywhere and Everywhere -- that's her policy, part of her very own "if you want to date me" initiation process. Then again, the rest of...
First Date 101: It's all about assets
"I have a huge single unit." "What?" "My room," Greg repeated, "it's a HUGE unit." I am on a date with Greg Yolen '04 and you better believe that he has a huge unit. When this whole "date" idea was proposed to me by my editors, I figured that...
A trip to the toy store: Good vibrations, sweet sensations
One morning this summer I was getting ready for work, listening to the radio as always. The "Star and Buckwild" show on Hot 97 can be a surprising source of interesting information. As usual, I was not disappointed. This particularly steamy July day...
The touching diary of a recovering shop-aholic
I went to 17 classes today. It was the most atrocious experience of my entire life (barring of course, all of freshman year). Welcome to shopping period. No one, it seems has any kind of pity for me, because EVERYONE is going through the exact same...