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...stormy from the start. Hip-hop was my first literature, and it was Rakim, not Fitzgerald, who first made me consider writing. Still, all that macho blathering was a weird match for me, a kid with the self-esteem of an earthworm. So every few years, I'd bemoan the state of the music, rip my Public Enemy posters from the wall, unspool all my mix tapes and swear, "Never again!" That was mostly posturing--all it took was something arch and underground, say, Operation Lockdown by Heltah Skeltah, to get me swooning...
...investigation into academic plagiarism published in December 2004, the Chronicle of Higher Education found that “the same professors who constantly bemoan their students’ lax attitudes toward plagiarism often clam up when it is their colleagues doing the copying...
...students. There is an overwhelming culture of complaint at Harvard. Students bemoan the amount of work they have like adolescent boys comparing shoe sizes. They curse Harvard for bad TFs, uninspiring lecturers, the quality of dorm life (and dorm food), the fact that the College—gasp—officially enforces Mass. state alcohol law, poor advising, and a smorgasbord of more petty annoyances...
Many whiners like to bemoan the lack of a student center on campus. These people either are blind or have recently lost swipe card access to Lamont library—in recent weeks, oh so much more than a place to skim your sourcebook before section...
...business meetings in the back room of his favorite Chinese restaurant or totting up profits of his best-selling computer programs, Philippe Kahn, 33, the unconventional founder and president of Borland International, relishes his self-styled role as the "Crazy Frenchman" of the software business. And while other executives bemoan their industry's slowdown, Kahn, whose sales have zoomed from zero in 1983 to an estimated $30 million this year, simply says, "I don't feel the slump...