Word: casualize
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...risks of such casual oversight--coupled with the pressure that labs are under to produce evidence--were underscored last year when Oklahoma police chemist Joyce Gilchrist was fired, allegedly for committing scientific errors and misinterpreting results. The state is reviewing more than 1,000 cases she handled. Gilchrist denies any wrongdoing...
...endearing growl, 25-year-old Josh Ritter sings about the “small moments”—everyday occurences that may seem insignificant to the casual observer. Inspired by the likes of Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan, Ritter paints evocative pictures of life. His lyrics are full of metaphor and are rich in description and imagery: “I keep you in a flower vase / With your fatalism and your crooked face...
...Harvard male: Tell a girl you go to Harvard, and she’ll fall at your feet. No matter who you were in high school, the myth goes, you’re a hot commodity once you manage to slip where you go to school into casual conversation...
...Friends, family, acquaintances, casual acquaintances, really distant family members, people who sat next to him in lecture once—basically anyone who has ever met Harold B. Mackey ’03—were shocked and appalled to find out that he has started spending Wednesday afternoons tutoring at-risk youths at a local junior high school. According to blockmates and police, Mackey’s only previously expressed public-service goal was “throwing a goddamn flaming brick through the window of the Fly?...
...call the students who graduate bottom of their Harvard classes?” “Harvard graduates.” The old jokes are, if not the best, than certainly the most comforting. However, even the most cursory glance at the Harvard student body would tip off the casual observer that most undergraduates are unable to grasp that simple premise. In spite of the furor over falling numbers at last week’s Phillips Brooks House Association First-Year Day of Service—where 25 students participated, compared to more than 300 eager volunteers the previous year?...