Word: collared
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...poised as they are, academia is not out of the question.But like many upperclassmen, a fair bit of existential anxiety has lately welled up in me. Here’s my problem: I love history, but I am ambivalent about becoming an academic—the whitest of white-collar professionals, whose usefulness to society at large is questionable, who at worst appears to live in a detached existence floating above the mundane everyday.This spectacle has, at least, offered up one epiphany: professors are homo sapiens, too. Just like their students back home, some will hook up, and many will...
...student from a blue-collar background, I was rather appalled by the wealth of the place,” Fitzsimmons said. “To say I had a chip on my shoulder would be a wild understatement...
...much as I am sympathetic to non-college, blue collar kids, like me…we wouldn’t all use Harvard’s resources as well as other people would,” Fitzsimmons told students at a similar event held two weeks later, where soda and cookies had replaced the cider and cheese. He confessed his doubts that “you’ll ever see a perfect representation of American social classes at a place like Harvard...
...then splashed himself with water to give the impression that he was sweating from a long run. Other women were supposedly dallied with in parked cars, where Patterson says he twice saw a woman perform oral sex on Clinton. The troopers were around to wipe makeup off his shirt collar or arrange hotel- room encounters or sneak women into the Governor's mansion while Mrs. Clinton slept. The affairs continued after the election, the article claims, citing a case in which a trooper stood guard while Clinton carried on with a woman in the basement recreation room of the Governor...
...exciting to see America's Big Three automakers finally realize that by working together they can achieve goals they only thought about in the past ((Business, Dec. 13)). It would serve their best interests -- and those of corporate America -- if they would consult with the blue-collar workers at all levels to help make a turnaround happen...