Word: dullness
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...taking “individuals with a wide range of talents, interests, personal qualities and circumstances and career goals” as well as very top high school students whose academic brilliance often, if not always, went hand-in-hand with being “frankly…pretty dull and bloodless, or peculiar.” Indeed, Harvard is an academic institution—and it should remain as such. But the administration should be wary of creating a curriculum that caters only to students interested in becoming academics themselves...
...nothing else, it helped dull some of the momentum Harvard had developed throughout the second. The rest of that momentum would soon vanish amidst the Terrier barrage at the top of the third...
...tone, but seriously folks, what’s the deal with cell phones? I always find myself asking, “What in the Lord’s name are all those people on cell phones talking about when they walk to and from classes? Is the scenery that dull? Who are they talking to? And what of these people who religiously check their voicemail after each class, during every intermission and at dinner?” The obvious answer is that these are people with highly evolved social lives that are much more exciting and important than...
...worthless unless he continually moved toward better jobs and bigger houses." He has a mind that clinks like a cash register, cursing every lost rupee. It's through his tutoring that Ramchandra meets Malati, a poor student with a bastard child, who sends her teacher's dull world spinning off its axis...
Thanks to a handful of entrepreneurial websites, however, gamblers need not restrict themselves to dull sporting events. At betonsports.com, it’s easy to wager on terrorism, war and even natural disasters. For those not fired up by a Blazers-Nuggets game, there’s a chance to bet on which hemisphere will host the next 7.5 magnitude earthquake (odds say the Eastern) or to wager on which month this year will see the U.S. Embassy in Pakistan destroyed by nuclear weapons. (At 15,000 to 1, the odds for March 2003 are the same as the odds...