Word: boots
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...AIDS was owing partly to a "gale of often icy promiscuity," was homophobic and therefore deserved severe punishment. To be sure, Hoagland got his teaching job at Bennington back after an investigation showed that the college's literature department had "deviated from proper recruitment procedures" in giving him the boot. Nonetheless, there is a chilling effect. "Essayists have always been unpopular because they think for themselves," Hoagland told the Boston Globe. "I don't think the gravity of this issue has sunk in. Nationwide and at Bennington, I don't think the lesson's been learned...
...similar boot in the behind is now in order for Bush's chief of staff, John Sununu. His abuse of public facilities and trust and George Bush's presidency is just wrong. His apologies and contrition are shams. Sununu has shot himself in both feet and some other parts, has diminished a talented and devoted White House staff, and has insulted the intelligence of Bush and now the country...
...will guarantee one thing: today's Commencement speakers wrote their own speeches, and submitted them to a grueling competition to boot. (OK, they had a little help from the expository writing director, too, but it's their work in essence...
Final clubs are racist and elitist, to boot. If you liked the Harvard admissions office, you'll love a group of clubs that takes discrimination against Asian-Americans and favoritism for athletes and legacies to a new level. Final clubs are the last bastion of the old Harvard, a Harvard where men, where money talked loud and status even louder, where the unwashed masses were kept in their proper place and women were toys for young bachelors to play with...
...guess after boot camp I realized I was in the wrong place," he said...