Word: bitters
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Holoshitz forwarded her e-mail, and Seiler’s subsequent responses, to both current UC Vice President Kia J. McLeod ’10 and former UC presidential candidate Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10, who lost in a bitter race against Flores last year. In these e-mails, she discussed with Schwartz the possibility of feeding a story about the voting software to a Crimson reporter...
...album. In “Tell Yer Mama,” she coolly exhorts an ex-lover to “tell your mama I said hello, / that she raised you—[pause]—too damn slow.” She remains deliciously calm throughout the bitter piece. Similarly, in “Man of the Hour,” she expresses shock that she may actually settle with one man for even just an hour—after overcoming the feeling that she “can’t choose between a vegan...
...Messenger” taps into this message by conveying—wonderfully and unexpectedly—a small sense of humor amid so much desolation. As Stone and Montgomery playfully bicker about whose car to take and who gets to drive, the film reveals both the bitter and the sweet that many war-inspired films tend to miss...
...rose to power in 1996 as head of the secular, center-left Awami League party he had founded. Hasina's government lifted the legal ordinance put into place by Mujib's usurpers that protected the coup's conspirators. But in 2001, Hasina was ousted in an election by her bitter rival, Khaleda Zia, the widow of Ziaur Rahman, a general who ruled Bangladesh not long after Mujib's death and who was also killed by a group of rebellious army officers. The case fell into legal limbo, and the feuding between the two women and their political parties grew...
...Consider all the positive strides in British-Irish relations since 1986, the year Diego Maradona's similarly illegal "Hand of God" goal knocked England out of the World Cup quarterfinals and propelled Argentina to the championship. Do we now want the Brits bitter that the Irish got their do-over, and they didn't? In 1985, umpire Don Denkinger cost the St. Louis Cardinals a World Series by blowing an obvious call at first base in the bottom of the ninth in Game 6. How did the Cardinal faithful respond to their unholy, unjust loss to their intra-state opponent...