Word: chump
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...trend toward reducing the personal importance of the occasion to potential purchases. For example, Harvard encourages families to send out graduation announcements, in the same way one would announce the birth of one’s child, and to purchase class rings that generally exceed $400—not chump change. Even senior portraits in their countless variations can come out to several hundred dollars. Are all these commodities necessary to remember our experience here? I was once asked at an admissions information session whether I was surprised or excited to have gotten in to Harvard. I had never thought...
...respect, then there's no reason not to manipulate it with impunity - but no important journalist wants to be manipulated. You can scold Ted Koppel for chasing trash - once - but you pay a price when the "trash" turns out to be true. No one likes being played for a chump...
...swinging standards of Wall Street, Kerviel's salary amounted to chump change. And the fact that he wasn't eligible for dizzyingly huge bonuses is so alien to the average Wall Street trader that they're still trying to digest it. One, a college friend of mine who didn't study "trading" but English literature, and is now a multimillionaire, e-mailed me: "What is that, a French thing...
...symbols of colonialist repression and American exceptionalism. My favorite holidays are Diwali and Bastille Day.” I read somewhere that Americans will shell out $5 billion on Halloween this year. Spending’s up more than 50% since 2005. But it’s still just chump change, compared to the $475 billion we’ll blow on Christmas. “Get back to me when Adams House has a ‘Sweet and Nasty’ Christmas pageant...
...Affleck has gone and challenged our neat picture of him as movie-star chump by directing and co-writing a crackling little detective film about child abduction, Gone Baby Gone. In poker, this is known as going all in. First, the movie is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Lehane, who also wrote Mystic River, which Clint Eastwood put on film to much critical acclaim. Comparisons are inevitable. Second, the movie features imperiled children, spectacularly vulgar language and the urban poor of Boston, none of which scream must-see. Third, he cast his younger brother Casey as the lead...