Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It’s time for FM to air its dirty laundry, so sit back, relax and enjoy our socially awkward lies, maladjusted rumors and agoraphobic innuendos...
...That was supposed to be an applause line,” he told the audience after one awkward silence...
While the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) will take students home at any hour, not a very well known fact, it can be awkward to ride home in a police car and inconvenient to wait if HUPD is especially busy at the time. It is commonly argued that a 24-hour on-call shuttle service is prohibitively expensive. Let us place the cost issue into perspective: the National Institute of Justice estimates that incidents of sexual assault cost at least $127 billion every year, approximately $508 a citizen. Even if that figure was not so astronomical, we as a society...
...presidential hopeful Jason L. Lurie ’05 describes himself as the Dennis Kucinich of the race. He knows he doesn’t have a chance in hell but perseveres nonetheless, pushing the issues close to his heart. A combination of boldfaced wit, awkward social incompetence and a proclivity for pushing unpopular legislation doomed Lurie’s presidential run last year, in which he finished dead last. His prospects appear equally bleak this year. Last month the Salient ran a banner editorial headlined “Repeal Jason Lurie” in reaction to his muckraking against...
...with him over lunch this week, Hedrick lived up to the quirky romantic of YM’s telling. Eating his Froot Loops with a fork, Hedrick showed his sensitive side. Although he’s now a teen idol, Hedrick is still humble enough to remember more awkward encounters with the opposite sex. “I was tragically in love with a girl who didn’t know that I was in love with her,” he says. “Her name was Mary, and she was beautiful...