Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With all these criticisms I remain in full agreement. Randomization is one in a string of decisions that the University has made with complete indifference to student opinion; limitations of student freedom is never something to be lauded; blocking groups remain large, splintering somewhat House communities and undermining the very...
Biggest blunder: Failed to anticipate economic disaster
But after a few months, it backfired. I began taking advantage of those extra seven, 13 or 23 minutes. A 12:00 lecture, for example, didn't really start until 12:13, but if you add the extra seven minutes, the class actually started at 12:20. Once I knew...
The only way out of this disaster was to set my clocks right. So in honor of Daylight Savings Time, I did. Not only did I end up losing only 37 minutes of sleep, but I also found the delightful sense of security of knowing not just where I was...
Which is, of course, exactly what we are expected to think. Repeating the original voyage -- right down to the ?unsinkable? claim -- is just about the best way to generate publicity short of hiring Leonardo DiCaprio as cabin boy. ?We thought now would be the right moment, because the whole world...