Word: awkwardness
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Much like waffles on Sundays and gratuitously awkward ice cream bashes, reading period is revered as a venerable part of Harvard’s fabric. Yet T.S. Eliot, Class of 1909 and Henry B. Adams, Class of 1858 managed to graduate sans a break to cram between classes and exams. That’s right—reading period actually began a paltry 79 years ago, under the auspices of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell. “Reading period was initially a faculty benefit, and students benefited indirectly,” says Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor...
...Government sources tell TIME that the agency will announce in the next few weeks that it will introduce a race-neutral profiling program at the country's busiest airports, among them New York's John F. Kennedy, Los Angeles International and Chicago's O'Hare. The program has an awkward title, Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques, but a clever acronym, SPOT. It has been tested over the last three years at several airports in the Northeast, including Boston's Logan Airport, where two of the 9/11 hijacking teams launched their operations...
Behind the sparkly costumes, heavily hair-sprayed ponytails, and overly exaggerated smiles of The Harvard Crimson Dance Team (CDT) are young women who started out as slightly awkward ballerinas.“When I was five, I walked pigeon-toed,” says former captain Patricia L. Pringle ’07, with some embarrassment, while talking over coffee. “My father suggested that ‘maybe she should start taking ballet.’”Former captain Kimberly M.Y. Chang ’06 laughs and adds that she slouched as a child...
...someone to tell you that you’re able to have non-awkward social interactions after four years at Harvard...
...point in the last few weeks we looked back upon our four years of broken dreams and sexual frustration, and suddenly nostalgia washed over us in an awesome wave. Who would have figured four years ago, when an over-eager, aggressively Catholic Catizone ran into an under-eager, socially awkward Schonberger at Pre-Frosh weekend, that we might actually be sad to say goodbye?Sure, we’re delighted to say goodbye to City Step jokers who dance like idiots in front of the Science Center. Goodbye to kids who are convinced that they are somehow...