Word: absurd
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...candidates promised that away to get the feminists’ endorsement, but be assured, they appreciate and understand the criticisms.Occasionally, candidates rise above (or perhaps sink below) pandering and instead talk about why they are best-suited for the office—an enterprise that quickly becomes an absurd game of one-upmanship. Voith and running-mate Tara Gadgil ’07 want you to know that they have eight semesters of UC experience between them. Eight...I’m in thrall.But wait: it turns out that the strength of the Haddock ticket is that Annie R. Riley...
...think it’s protected speech, and this move to ban it is absurd,” says Jason P. Dore, a second year law student...
...contrary, there was a sharp decline) only bolsters this argument. Hopefully Harvard, along with Captain Evans and his minions, will follow Yale’s lead next year at the Game and strive to create a safe tailgating atmosphere without impeding upon harmless student revelry by enacting absurd rules that are then strictly enforced. This year’s tailgate in New Haven only proved that U-Hauls, kegs, and laid back law enforcement do nothing to promote the dangerous debauchery that so terrifies the Harvard administration...
...quoting and picking tidbits out of context” from his sources.When Chomsky accused the American media of failing to cover Israeli helicopter attacks on Palestinian homes in the first weeks of the current intifada and the subsequent American shipment of attack helicopters to Israel, Dershowitz said it was absurd to believe Chomsky’s claims of a media conspiracy.“Why would the newspapers not cover these stories?” Dershowitz said. “They are figments of Chomsky’s imagination.”Dershowitz said that his opponent lived...
...Rent”’s pop-rock songs and video montages fail to show the horror of AIDS, losing the essence of what is, at its heart, a terrible tragedy.“Rent” is at its most disgustingly absurd where HIV/AIDS and poverty intersect. The film’s characters can’t afford to pay rent, but they have no trouble getting expensive medications. For a film that claims to be about poverty and disease, “Rent” is shockingly silent on the ways poverty interacts with illness to make...