Word: discomforting
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...four years, cadets and midshipmen wake up obscenely early in order to trek to MIT and get yelled at by their instructors. That’s an indignity that Harvard usually reserves for accounting students. If you want to know what visceral discomfort looks like, watch a Harvard ROTC student shuffle across campus in his military uniform. Banished by the Faculty in 1969 amid a rising tide of anti-war sentiment on Harvard’s campus, ROTC has more recently been relegated to its pariah status because of the military’s mindless discrimination against homosexuals. Forget...
...abortofacient drugs, filming her miscarriages, and then smearing the blood on a big plastic cube. Speculation continues over whether she actually carried out the acts or whether (as is more likely) it’s all a big “creative fiction” in aid of discourse, discomfort, and one student’s 15 minutes of fame...
...Adams to its draft selection, a move that largely diffused the importance of the recall. “After we put it back on draft, we didn’t sell it in bottles,” said bartender Christopher J. Benway ’08. Some have expressed discomfort with the nonchalance of the manufacturer, which is offering customers product refunds through the Samuel Adams Web site. “If they want to be forgiven, they should be a little more generous than just exchanging bottles,” said fourth-year graduate student and self-proclaimed beer...
...because “at Winsor we are very careful not to step on each other’s toes, because girls are more sensitive.” But overall, Fleming is confident that her all-girls education will be a benefit for her, and not a source of discomfort, in the transition to the coed life.One thing she might have a problem with, though: “I’m going to have to remember I can’t go out into the hall and yell if anyone has a tampon...
...wife," says Talamani, "the concept of operating through the vagina, was, well, quite foreign to her. That would be a kind way to put it." Dr. Marc Bessler, director of laparoscopic surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, who is conducting a study on transvaginal gallbladder removal, says knee-jerk discomfort with the idea may be keeping patients away. "I was hoping after doing the first few that patients would come looking for this," he says, but they have been slow to arrive. Bessler has thus far removed three patients' gallbladders, but is aiming...