Word: earnestly
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...most undergraduates gear up to shop classes during the start of second semester, two students will tackle pursuits of a different nature. Rohit Chopra '04 and Jessica R. Stannard-Friel '04, the new president and vice-president of the Undergraduate Council, begin their work in earnest this week and at the top of their to-do list should be the ordering of the council’s finances. Any future success depends on a healthy budget, and as long as the council keeps wasting money in its liberal grants process, it will be at a loss to get adequate finances...
...Chicago last week, Salton product manager John Howell is still bursting with pride for what he claims is a first: the $300 Westinghouse Unplugged Cord-Free Vacuum, a full-size vacuum cleaner that runs on rechargeable batteries and is due out in June. "This," he says in dead earnest, as if showgoers had never seen a Dustbuster, "is completely revolutionary...
Bronson doesn't have Terkel's gift for conveying character through dialogue, and he can be very, very earnest. It would try the patience of a saint--be it St. Paul or St. Elmo--to listen to the overachieving ballet dancer--runway model--M.B.A. who moans on and on about how empty her life is. Maybe Bronson puts up with it because, even with the hopeless narcissists, he knows he's on the trail of something real: by and large, the interviews are scarily honest, with people sweating and crying and popping antidepressants as they fight to find themselves...
There are similarities in O’Keefe’s works, from Mo Rocca’s serious Pudding moment, to his earnest-yet-absurd Bat Boy and his new tragicomic project with David Shiner...
...League season now begins in earnest for Harvard, starting with Saturday’s rematch with Dartmouth in Hanover...