Word: barely
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Thanks to the consumer reviews on TripAdvisor.com, by the time I walked into my London hotel room, some 5,357 miles from home, I knew that I would be stepping my bare feet onto a heated green marble tile floor in the bathroom. Never having visited this small boutique hotel, I also knew the soap and bath products were Molton Brown, the names and expertise limits of each front desk staff, and that I should make the counter-intuitive move to pass on the scones at breakfast and head straight for the croissants...
...might be the genre’s “Rapper’s Delight,” crossovers can happen in many directions, especially for a genre like reggaeton, at the crossroads of pop, hip-hop and more traditionally Latin and Caribbean music. As hip-hop turns towards bare-bones snap music and syrupy “chopped and screwed” remixes of minimal thug anthems, reggaeton offers exciting instrumentals and a beat that couldn’t be much easier to synchronize on the fly. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, as Marley Marl and Kool...
...death-spiral into insolvency. After a year of giving out buckets of cash to student groups—which frequently pack the UC’s meetings with desolate-looking, begging-and-pleading volunteer tutors when their grant applications are up for discussion—the cupboard is finally bare. Mather’s HoCo has no change to spare, either. After a year of happy hours and movie nights, the House is fresh out of cash, and right before its annual dance-party-cum-human-car-wash...
...equal opportunities to compete—for Yale’s first female rowers, this meant walking sweaty and chilled into the athletic director’s office and stripping off their shirts to reveal the words “Title IX” painted across their bare breasts, in order to demand equal funding for women’s rowing. I challenge the networks to help us face this history, one which thankfully is rarely so explicitly repeated in collegiate athletic departments today...
...been sexually abused. In both plays, a schoolboy named John accuses authority figures of molesting him. In a play Cho titled Mr. Brownstone, John says the eponymous teacher raped him. "I wanna kill him," John says. In the other play, Richard McBeef, the accused molester kills John with his bare hands...