Word: bitters
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However, tutoring is just like a pill and American students will not get better unless they take it, no matter how bitter...
...week, during the presentation itself, my professor patted me on the shoulder and called me the "gender balance" of my project. I was stunned. After almost a year at Harvard—where sometimes, I felt slightly out of place because of my sex—I had the bitter taste of covert discrimination lingering in my mouth as I left Cambridge for the summer...
...After learning about her HIV status, she says she definitely started taking her medications more seriously. "But it was an ongoing struggle. I did feel sick most of the time - I had nausea and diarrhea. The medicine gave me a bitter, bitter, bitter taste that would come back up in my throat hours later in school. If I could get away with not taking them, I would." Knowing the truth also meant that Pena began living a double life. Only her closest friends knew her diagnosis; most of her classmates were unaware of the daily battle she fought with...
...months now, al-Maliki has promised to deal with the sectarian violence with ?an iron fist? - that's his expression. He will undoubtedly make similar promises in the course of his visit to Jordan. But Iraqis have learned from bitter experience that their lame duck leader does little more than quack...
Since delivering the speech in which he quoted a 14th century Emperor who said the Prophet of Islam had given nothing positive to humanity and had commanded followers to use violence to spread their faith, Pope Benedict XVI has been subjected to bitter Muslim reaction around the world. Benedict has responded by saying he regretted the consequences of his misunderstood words, but he did not retract his statement--perhaps rightly so. After all, he had simply cited an ancient Emperor. It is Benedict's right to exercise his critical opinion without being expected to apologize for it--whether...