Word: clawingly
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...constitutes a woefully incomplete recipe for real House community; for a given freshman to develop an affinity for his House—grounded in anything other than propinquity-by-necessity—House life must be rich enough to win his affections away from the myriad student organizations that claw at undergraduates’ time and loyalties. Most recently, the debate has turned to House Committee (HoCo) funding. Late last month, the Undergraduate Council (UC) announced changes to the way in which it will fund HoCos. But while the new rules are certainly a step in the right direction, they...
...saddest part is, this was just the tip of the iceberg, a single moment that distills the utter douchiness of this school. Harvard is a university where the same resources are available to all of us, where we shouldn’t have to scratch and kick and claw to get what we need. Yet somehow, greed is the pervading ethos of this campus...
...During that first day, the local rescue effort stalled because few people were left alive to claw through the rubble in search of their families. "There were no helping hands," says Mohammad Raees, 22, a shopkeeper. "You could find only one or two people at the collapsed houses, desperately asking others for help." But most were too busy with their own private tragedies to help...
...paradise in the making, but an unremarkable fact of life. Give it a constitution, with all the usual high-tone preambles? Like, why bother? A certain ennui with the great causes of the past, of course, does not translate into the sort of big C, red-in-tooth-and-claw conservatism familiar in the U.S. Labor market reform may be the watchword of European governments from Greece to Scandinavia, but defense of the "European social model" remains a potent rallying cry. Bush is still a figure of hate and ridicule. But something is happening in Europe, in its economics, social...
...Tooth and Claw...