Word: chime
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...imagine for a moment that HUWIB had a male counterpart—Harvard University Men in Business. I cannot believe most Harvard students would think that was acceptable. I dare say Drew G. Faust (soon to be Harvard’s most powerful official, gender aside) would chime in on the affair. I will leave it to the reader to ponder the implications of Harvard’s “Women’s Center...
...course, someone will chime in that I should have gone to a Swarthmore, Williams, or Wesleyan if I wanted that kind of professor contact. But that’s ludicrous, because as they always say, where else could I meet such interesting, brilliant people as here at Harvard—people who have impressively collected a dilettante’s knowledge of quantum physics and Wittgenstein, and who aren’t afraid to bore me with it over beers...
...long-acting hormone, you can dally under the covers a bit without losing any steam. But your brain is already taking steps to protect you from the shock of starting a new day. Rising cortisol levels signal the hypothalamus to stop sounding the alarm. Other parts of the brain chime in, and eventually the adrenal glands ratchet down their cortisol production. In other words, the brain's stress response contains its own off switch...
Proposed response to phase three: chime in (ironically) that you can’t believe that this maniacal, lying, murdering President, who is ruining America’s legacy abroad, has yet to be impeached. Finish with a nod to the trials and tribulations of being a liberal in today’s society. Your irony will undoubtedly be lost on the assumer, but at least you’ll get a laugh out of the experience...
...jabs at justices Scalia and Thomas. Past students recall Horwitz asking them to “be like Princeton students and actually do the reading”—there’s a lot of it but it is very useful, and will enable you to chime into abortion debates with enlightened comments like, “Actually, the privacy language in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) is not as novel as one has been led to believe—in fact, the discussion of a constitutional ‘right to privacy’ dates back...