Word: beers
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...having a particularly disastrous senior fall. I walked back to Dunster, as per usual spilling coffee on myself and stepping in puddles on an uneven DeWolfe Street, and found that my eight male roommates had used the last of our toilet paper to mop up beer. I curled up on our futon and cried, cursing womanhood, the Cambridge weather, and Crimson-induced stress...
...just yesterday, at the Reserve Office Training Core commissioning ceremony, she leveled much-needed criticism against the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Although she took some misguided stances, such as her opposition to beer advertising at NCAA tournaments, she rightly avoided taking controversial stands on issues that were unrelated to her position in academia...
...critical sense, we academicians know these men as psychopaths, and perhaps they are. They believe in sensuality, not sense; in thrill, not mere experience. Beauty is physical, and they think the world owes them a living—a free beer, a pat on the back, easy sex, and a wad of twenty-dollar bills. Responsibility has too many syllables and love is a dirty word. Ginsberg makes a disappointing Rimbaud...
...particular, years of research have demonstrated over and over that our intuitions about the relative effectiveness of different approaches are often wrong. Over the years we’ve learned that we are often wrong about what drives our dishonest behavior, about what makes us enjoy a glass of beer, about what makes us willing to pay different amounts for different products, etc. In essence, our intuitions about what drives our behavior are often misguided...
...pavement outside Brynjolfur Gesson's garage, their red hats and white beards a mess of ceramic shards. Unlike his garden gnomes, Gesson wasn't home when the earthquake struck his home earlier in the afternoon, sending a wide crack up the wall of his kitchen, where broken plates, beer cans, and paper lie in a chaotic heap on the floor. As his neighbors cram mattresses and suitcases into cars as they head for the homes of relatives in nearby Reykjavik, Gesson can't say where he plans to go. "I don't know," he says, frustrated, and retreats back inside...