Word: complained
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...tongue-in-cheek mode of self-expression, but final clubs members take it to an all new level. Spouting-whale pants? Ha! Madras print flannel boxers and loafers made out of sheepskin? That’s enough to inspire dry-yet-ironic chuckling from any peanut gallery!People always complain about the cloying preppiness or seemingly ingrained class differences rampant in the popped collar. One popped collar may be annoying. But five? Pink ones? At the same time? On the same person? That is genius.The women who party at final clubs—despite the fact that they have...
...mounting problems facing Washington's shaky alliance with Musharraf. The Bush Administration has backed Musharraf on the basis that he is cooperating in the war on terror - even if not to the extent the U.S. demands - and that the alternatives are worse. But many secular liberals in Pakistan complain that Musharraf brandishes the jihadi threat to maintain military rule and suppress Pakistan's main moderate political parties, quite a far cry from the democratic values trumpeted by the Bush Administration. The jihadist element has long been nurtured by the Pakistani security establishment, which cultivated it during the anti-Soviet campaign...
...challenge Bush as his approval rating stays mired in the low 40s. G.O.P. lawmakers are getting more vocal in challenging Bush's spending priorities, and his modest budget cuts on programs from farm aid to housing to student loans are running into election-year resistance, even as the legislators complain about the costs of his Medicare prescription-drug program. On Friday the coalition of House conservatives known as the Republican Study Committee sent a letter to the White House demanding more justification for Bush's spending requests, specifically the $92.2 billion in emergency money that he wants...
...International Relations Council (IRC)—will be evicted once the renovations of the Hilles are complete. Understandably, the IRC and other basement-dwelling groups are peeved at being kicked out of their central locations and forced to move to the distant suburb that is the Quad. They complain that the conversion of their basement offices into, among other things, social space for the freshman class—as has been announced—is both wrongheaded and unnecessary...
...President Bush normally takes the absolutist position in the war on terror - on Gitmo, on wiretaps, on enemy combatants - and lets everyone else complain that he is too hard over, too much at war. But here the roles are reversed: the president is dug in on the deal and the public, at least as represented by the Congress, is taking the absolutist, no surrender, position...