Word: bitter
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard left no room for error in meticulously dismantling the Lions. “Two years ago, it was really disheartening,” co-captain Geoff Rathgeber said. “We hung our heads the whole meet, and it was an awful, awful experience. We had a bitter taste and wanted to prove that we were capable of getting the job done, even with the distractions of midterms and Harvard-Yale. Our focus and intensity—everything was spot-on in terms of that.” The Crimson wore black caps for the meet, a move...
...childhood immunizations cause autism. In the U.K., doctors and policy makers are debating whether to encourage universal vaccination against chickenpox, a step that U.S. medical authorities took in 1995. Even that debate - focused not on the vaccine's safety, but on whether it's really necessary - has become surprisingly bitter...
...efforts of three freshmen, winning, 3-2, at the Bright Hockey Center in a game that Crimson head coach Katey Stone called “ugly.” The win ushered in a fresh start for the Harvard skaters, who are trying to rid themselves of the bitter taste left over from their crushing four-overtime loss to Wisconsin in the first round of last season’s NCAA Tournament. Hampered by penalties and sluggish play for much of the first two periods, Harvard found itself in a 2-1 hole late into the second. But with less...
...peoples the campaigners ostensibly seek to help—but to their own society.This self-congratulatory student activism, typified by such officious petition-writing, fosters a pernicious habit of moral sloth and validated pride. These bad habits, easily formed and even more easily justified, make our own politics more bitter, more boastful, and less humane. Unsurprisingly, these self-styled moral paragons select an investment bank to impugn—a target fit for the coward or the sycophant too fearful or too flattering not to pander to popular prejudices. Despite the competitive investment-bank recruiting process and their selective hiring...
...love, suffering, and betrayal (I promise it’s nothing like the typical Spanish telenovela), “Bodas de Sangre” is a haunting story about a wife-to-be who leaves her fiancée at the altar and escapes with her ex-lover. A bitter and violent rivalry ensues between the two families. Lorca’s obsessions with murder, death, and the role of women in society are central themes in the play. The Agassiz production began weakly with a confusing blend of discordant singing, incomprehensible dialogue, and insecure acting. By the second half...