Word: breakfast
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...ready for the kill." They hiss and shout, "'Wrong!' 'Bull____!' 'Go back to Harvard."' Great stuff, but it never happened, according to tapes and transcripts dug up by Rauch. Saxton was less Savonarola than Mister Rogers; the hearing was dull, even for C-SPAN. The lunch was breakfast, the room nonsmoking and nonhissing, and a third of the audience was women. Reich responds that transcripts couldn't reflect the hostility he felt. Who does he think he is--the President...
...famous libel case--psychoanalyst Jeffrey Masson against the New Yorker's Janet Malcolm--turned in part on whether an interview took place over goat cheese at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., or breakfast at Malcolm's Manhattan home. Details matter, especially when they wound real people. Reich is safe: his meals--lunch, breakfast, whatever--were with public figures. Not so the reader who thought Reich was being true to what happened...
Similarly, in Harvard's early days students would do almost anything to avoid finals. As early as 1791, students were engaging in pranks such as secretly mixing emetic into the communal breakfast pot in order to stave off exams...
...daily Crimson was no more than a myth for the class of 1947, for "Cambridge's only breakfast table daily" had been replaced by The Service News, a twice-weekly paper that was almost entirely military in flavor...
Princeton offers a similar credit system for missed meals. Whenever students skip breakfast, lunch or dinner, they receive compensation of $2.50, $3.50 or $4.50, respectively...