Word: brag
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Extremists in both parties either narrowly escaped or were forced into the witness-protection program in order to win. California's loopy "B-1 Bob" Dornan, who loves to brag about having piloted every bomber in the Air Force fleet, was in a dead heat with Loretta Sanchez in his increasingly Hispanic Southern California district. Even Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative firebrand, started sounding more tolerant about abortion, touted his ability to direct federal aid to his state after Hurricane Fran left $5 billion in damage and boasted of his success in protecting the state's tobacco and peanut...
After flipping through pages long enough, I sometimes worry about the books suffering neglect. Who is reading the five miles of books Harvard's brochures brag about? For what purpose did their authors toil to write them? And who needs them all? Once in a while, I'll check out a book whose last date stamp is 17 June 1965 and wonder how many other books have sat on the shelves since Lyndon Johnson was president, waiting to be taken out or even given a second glance...
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version." Exhibit A is the author of that gloomy sentence: Frank McCourt, 66, a retired New York City public school teacher who was born in Depression-racked Brooklyn but spent his formative years in the dank slums of Limerick...
Those kind of numbers might also explain why Harvard has managed to remain need-blind, something Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons '67 brags about at every turn. Need-blind admissions appears to be supported by a sizable group of rich people paying it all out and a small group of students whose education is largely funded by the federal government. Is that the kind of policy Harvard should brag about...
...social chair this year. Furthermore, Josh alleges that the two Currier residents were dealing drugs rather than just possessing them, a much more serious charge. Why does not Josh leave it to the HUPD to make accusations of this kind? Currier residents have enough decency not to brag about the matter. Maybe The Crimson can rise to this challenge of safeguarding people's privacy, or is too much to ask of a paper that has nothing to write about? --Andrew B. Obuvalin...