Word: complain
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Here's what we learned in a week when oil prices hit a 10-year low and the stock market broke five records in five days and a woman accused the President of an unwelcome sexual advance: Americans complain that some of the biggest problems facing the country are crime, politicians and the lack of moral values. And yet the most popular leader in the country is a politician who half of us believe, according to a new TIME/CNN poll, "lacks the proper moral character to be President." We'll tolerate extraordinary flaws in a successful President and leave almost...
WASHINGTON: Kathleen Willey is talking again. The former Democratic volunteer, who has gone into hiding since her "60 Minutes" interview last Sunday, broke her weeklong vow of silence to complain to Newsweek that the White House was "trying to make me look like a wacko." Of those letters she wrote to President Clinton after the alleged groping incident, she said: "I had made a decision that I was going to put that incident behind me... I'm allowed to make that choice...
Around campus my suspicions were confirmed: suddenly I noticed more and more people were showing up to section with glasses. In late-night jaunts to the laundry room, countless more wore spectacles, admitting that they are closet contact-lens wearers. Friends began to complain how their vacation time would be dominated by trips to the optometrist and to pick out frames. My poor vision, for once, was not at fault; that number of eyes cannot be wrong. Harvard dorms are dangerously dim and campus vision is at stake...
Last year, I had nothing to complain about; my first-floor corner Hollis room had big windows which let in plenty of light (and tourists' glances). Now, my north-easterly-facing bedroom receives direct sunlight only between 6 and 8 a.m. No matter how good this arrangement might be for early-morning study sessions I sometimes plan but always seem to sleep through, my room is a cavern after...
...certainly amount to less than the almost $25,000 the Undergraduate Council had planned to spend on Springfest were the administration to host an annual party for every class. But then again, if they were supposed to be there, jaded Harvard upperclass students would probably have found something to complain about...