Word: backstab
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...Harvardian universe, then, the advantage often goes—at least in the short term—to the manipulative and dishonest and cutthroat, the people willing to backstab and lie and cheat their way upwards. At Harvard, meaningless club elections swirl with intrigue and rumors of unethical tactics, and Undergraduate Council vice presidents nearly get impeached for breaking election rules. And almost everyone knows someone who overreached—someone who alienated too many people, or told one too many lies, or cut too many corners and collided with the Ad Board...
...started coordinating social events, on the premise that if people have a certain degree of camaraderie, they will be less likely to backstab and treat other students with less than adequate respect...
Some songs on the album are far more bearable than others, and a few may even be classified as vaguely enjoyable. The perky "Backstab Boofie," has a charming exuberance and, since the lyrics are quite unintelligible, is not as embarrassing to listen to as typical YES!! fare. There's nothing wrong with pithy lyrics and limited vocal abilities--check out Cibo Mat-to--but such an approach needs to be tempered by some skilled irony in the delivery. Knox takes himself so seriously that he is dragged into a pit of self-involvement from which there is no escape. Knox...
...cast a brighter light in the short term, but Commerce generally wins big in the final tally. The high-tech world had spent the past month wondering which Apple-preserving rabbit Jobs would pull from his hat during his MacWorld speech. Now we know: the plan is to backstab Apple's friends by embracing their mutual enemy in one naked grasp for survival. The era of "competition between Apple and Microsoft is over," Jobs told the stunned conclave, announcing Microsoft's $150 million investment and software promises. They could all just get along...
Christopher and the other two members of the troika that helps run U.S. foreign policy -- Secretary of Defense Les Aspin and National Security Adviser Tony Lake -- share all the virtues in the Boy Scout Oath and then some: they are talented, intelligent, hardworking men who rarely backstab or second-guess one another. They argue correctly that they have done well enough on the issues that affect the country's most vital interests, including Russia, the Middle East, relations with Japan, and the future of NATO. It is also true that Bosnia, Somalia and Haiti are intricate problems with no easy...