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...Latin term that anyone even remotely connected to Harvard can translate is veritas. A more useful term for the Harvard Board of Overseers might be caveat emptor let the buyer beware...
...Caveat Emptor! L'etat, c'est moi! Don't it make your brown eyes blue! Not mine, certainly, but I confess to feeling a surge of indignation, all the same, at this fatuous manifestation of a meddling, bloated, neo-Johnsonian "Great" Societish welfare state Gorgon that I had long hoped would never rear its ugly head in the sartorially innocent groves of Eli academe...
...economy marked by low inflation and slow growth in which the number of well-paying jobs for young people seems to be steadily declining, loan repayment will constitute a heavier burden in the future than it did in the 1960s and '70. "We should not take a caveat emptor attitude toward students," she says...
...buying and using cosmetics. A few basic rules should be to avoid cosmetics containing carcinogens, to avoid ingesting cosmetics (women swallow half the lipstick they wear) and to reduce the chances of infection by avoiding sharing cosmetics. Until the industry itself can be restricted, the consumer must take "caveat emptor" more seriously than ever...
Novels with cute titles should come with a tag marked caveat emptor. The purchases, when opened, are likely to be as interesting and substantial as unfolded cocktail napkins. This year's notable exception is My Search for Warren Harding; the title represents truth in advertising. Elliot Weiner, an ambitious academic historian from New York City, thinks he has located a former mistress of President Harding, who died in office in 1923. The suspect lives in Los Angeles, happily undetected by the handful of Harding specialists who are Weiner's competitors. If the old lady has kept letters...