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...juggle his class preparation, graduate students and writing books. (I even knew when she came down with the flu because it meant she was a day or two late with her comments on a paper I'd submitted.) But while the course was cerebrally engaging, socially it was a dud. Discussions, a series of time-delayed postings on message boards, were stilted and there were almost no opportunities for class bonding. The only rite of passage I endured was my first Internet chat session...
...fall-fashion season in Cambridge, and the ever sartorially-challenged John Harvard is back in the Square arrayed in the latest imperial duds. The "dud" to which I refer, of course, being the building proposed for Mt. Auburn Street between the Fox Club and J. Press (News, "Harvard Architecture Stands As a Testament To the Times...
None of this bodes well for the Crimson offense, which after 2.5 games of explosive, high-flying point-scoring became a dud in the final 30 minutes against the Big Red. One of the reasons for this was Cornell's switch to an aggressive eight-man front, designed to put pressure on junior quarterback Neil Rose and stuff...
...greater range, but the high-lonesome sound on this cut has a rawness and emotion that travels even further into the heart than his more mannered later efforts. If you agree, "Cup of Loneliness," a 1994 double-CD, is worth the investment. It has 51 songs (with hardly a dud), excellent liner notes, and has been carefully re-mastered from the original recordings...
...change the tone in Washington" question. After acknowledging there is a better way to conduct government, Cheney said, "I've seen it done differently." Back in the old days of Bush the elder? No. "I've seen it done differently in Texas." The media book on Richard "the dud" Cheney is about to take a U-turn...