Word: bents
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Despite the fact that many top 10 lists have an positive bent, it is my experience that cautionary tales work best with you people. Thus I give you: Top 10 Things Not to Wear During the Holidays: 10. A Christmas themed sweater. This is just wrong. I know you all consciously know this. Yet the other day I was at a party where not one, but two people were wearing reindeer sweaters, perhaps ironically. Irony is lost on the reindeer, however. 9. A velvet skirt. The last time velvet was acceptable in a skirt was during the Elizabethan era. This...
...think its much different being at Harvard,” he says, referring to the campus’s liberal bent. “It really pushes to you to know much more about your candidates...
...launch whatever type of investigation he desires. George Mitchell was essentially acting as an agent of the commissioner during the entire process. But from the beginning, Mitchell faced a major obstacle: he had no subpoena power. Plus, he was facing a bitter players union, which felt it had already bent over backward to allay concerns about steroid use, twice agreeing to open up the 2002 collective bargaining agreement to strengthen penalties for drug users. Predictably, the players union balked. Frank Thomas and Jason Giambi were the only active players who talked to Mitchell's team; the others didn't even...
...going on just down the street. Never afraid to add some spectacle to her fierce displays of idealism, Maya D. Simpson ‘11 was engaged in an inspired bit of performance art. She would first throw handfuls of Monopoly money into the air. Then, when pedestrians unsuspectingly bent to pick it up, she assailed them for their crass materialism. I approached her and said, Maya, it’s pretty obnoxious of you to keep tricking these people. “I’m not tricking them,” she snapped back. “It?...
...yawning chasm between Republican rhetoric on taxes and even informed conservative opinion is maddening to those of wonkish bent. Pointing it out has become an opinion-column staple. But none of these screeds seem to have altered the political debate. So rather than write yet another, I decided to find out what Arthur Laffer thought...