Word: absurdities
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...Harvard, rejected the idea that the character of Harvard students would hamper the success of an honor code. “To presume that it wouldn’t work is to presume that Harvard students have less of a moral commitment to their honor, which to me is absurd,” she said. “I won’t believe that, it doesn’t make sense.”‘WE NEED TO POLICE’Philip A. Bean, Harvard’s assistant dean of freshmen from 1999 to 2002, suggested...
...It’s the most absurd thing in the world. They stuck me in a room for 20 minutes and it was like a 1980s computer and there was a white square and for the next 20 minutes I was supposed to click every time it moved and if I don’t score perfect on that, I have an attention problem,” he says. “I don’t think I should have a drug for that...
...amount of regional and national press over what insiders are calling “Opalgate” is bordering on the absurd. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, author of “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” borrowed liberally from another author’s work. So what? In the hip-hop world, this goes down all the time. The main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders...
...From afar, of course, this rhetorical crossfire can seem almost comically absurd. But as history has shown, it doesn't take much for a meaningless rock to become a battleground. It's a lesson that both sides would do well to remember...
...always take themselves too seriously, and chick lit certainly has its place (I, for one, spend a small fortune on tabloids and track Nicole Richie’s weight like a stock analyst.) Furthermore, to argue that novels should be divorced from economic reality would be absurd and na?...