Word: bane
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...Enthusiasm for interacting with the student body should be a requirement for tenure. Two hours of office hours is not terribly demanding, yet some professors make it seem like the bane of their existence. Harvard’s dining program allows students to take faculty members into the dining hall at no expense. I rarely, however, see anyone capitalizing upon this option. Why? The Harvard environment does not encourage such interaction. Professors should make a statement during shopping period that they are willing to meet with students outside of the classroom and office hours. In addition, it would be nice...
...First-year students must endure a semester of Expos for the sake of perfecting the fine art of essay writing. Expos, as the class is more commonly referred to, sometimes offers a rewarding experience, but nearly everyone knows that one person whose Expos section was the bane of their existence for the entire semester. Despite these mixed results, Expos does offer first-years more than opportunities to improve their writing; occasionally they meet famous people. Recently, the two sections of Expository Writing called “The Ethics of Fiction” met for a roundtable discussion with William Styron...
...Even after his retirement in 1948, Bradman had to endure the corollary of greatness, in his case a fame so massive it was given its own name: Bradmania. It was the bane of his life and, with the stress it brought, the cause of much of his ill health. For a tired, introspective old man, reclusion was a sanity-saving last resort. It was also his final stroke of genius. There's enough sound and fury in the world, enough fading stars who won't leave us to our memories, so eventually spoiling them. Bradman remained Bradman...
...killed a San Francisco woman [NATION, Feb. 12]: unfortunately, as in most cases of dog attacks, the last thing anyone worries about is the animal. Training a dog to be aggressive or to be an attack dog is a form of abuse. The dogs involved in the fatal mauling, Bane and Hera, learned that they would be rewarded if they were aggressive. People don't realize that how you raise a dog is just as important as how you rear a child. If you abuse an animal or teach it to be aggressive, you should expect to have an animal...
...1930s, nearly causing its extinction. Were the two dogs trained to kill? And if so, did the couple know what they were capable of? Noel and Knoller denied any culpability in an unusual, 18-page letter faxed to local district attorney Terence Hallinan. In it Noel described Bane--whose name literally means "death"--as "a really gentle animal" and Hera as "a neighborhood favorite." He claimed that Knoller tried to hold the dogs back during the attack, but Whipple refused to get into her apartment and even punched Knoller in the eye. Knoller sustained injuries from the dogs...