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...sold in large quantities on his first weekend at Harvard. He and his friends eventually went to Louie’s Superette to procure their alcohol, though the store did not carry “30s.” “It was kind of a bummer,” Hennrikus said. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...suggested that Americans should get over their need for gas-guzzling speed ("Believe me, 0 to 60 [m.p.h.] in 8.5 sec. is fine") and meat-heavy diets ("We really don't need 12-oz. steaks every day") before he realized he was making energy transformation sound like a bummer - and abruptly changed the subject. "I don't want to deliver too many messages," Chu said, more to himself than to me. "I need to focus on 'Let's not let this incredible opportunity slip away...
...supporters of legalization may have been handed their most convincing factor yet: the bummer economy. Advocates say that if state or local governments could collect a tax on even a fraction of pot sales, it would help rescue cash-strapped communities. Not surprisingly, the idea is getting traction in California, home to the nation's largest supply of domestically grown marijuana (worth an estimated $14 billion a year) and biggest state budget deficit (more than $26 billion...
...much our administration stinks and is totally unresponsive to the student voice—from the Corporation to all the bureaucratic bologna in between? Well, yeah, well that’s the same at Yale and any other elite university...so, yeah, that’s just a bummer for us all. Did you know that ‘Yale sucks’ is the most widely used English phrase in Thailand? Did you know that one time, Yale decided to do something cool and it failed? Did you know that I went to Yale once, farted, and I killed...
That's not to say BSG is a bummer; it's thrilling, lyrical, even funny. ("The good news is," a politician says, wondering how to spin the news about Earth, "real estate prices are low.") But it's an adventure of exhaustion, not exhilaration...