Word: alarmism
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...that went 2-25 overall and 0-14 in the Ivies—to pose as Princeton players for the duration of the season.At the first practice in the fall, Princeton coach Joe Scott doesn’t really recognize anyone, but it doesn’t alarm him, since he never truly recognized anyone but Andre Logan, Will Venable, and Judson Wallace off last year’s team anyway. So, he proceeds unfazed, even though Luke Owings, Noah Savage, and Scott Greenman seem to be playing a cruel prank on him by only answering to Matt, Jeremiah...
...prefrosh when I first heard Belle and Sebastian. After my long first night on campus, I woke to the opening strains of their breakout album “If You’re Feeling Sinister,” coming from my host’s CD-player alarm clock. As rain ran down the windows of the Lionel common room, I fell in love. It turns out I wasn’t alone. “If You’re Feeling Sinister” and several subsequent albums won the Scottish septet a legion of fans with catchy, precocious...
...Reports of late-night buzz sent officers to Eliot House F-14 on Thursday, Jan. 26. What they encountered was not a party. The culprit: an alarm clock. It was subsequently turned...
...When his alarm clock sounds at 6:30 a.m. each morning, Peter J. Gomes considers sleeping in until...
...Abramoff scandal has unfolded, alarm has spread on Capitol Hill that Justice Department prosecutors are building corruption cases on legally reported campaign donations--a worry that revelations of the alleged Ney quid pro quo are sure to fuel. Although refusing to comment on the specifics of the Ney case, a U.S. government expert on criminal law made the following point: "Contributions are lawful only if made in support of a lawmaker's policies. They are clearly illegal as part of a prenegotiated deal involving a quid pro quo." For a host of nervous politicians familiar with the murky ways...