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...picture. For example, do two people sharing a double split the cost? What if one wants the service and the other does not? What if one cannot afford it? Hiring someone to clean dorm rooms is a convenience, but it is also an obvious display of wealth that would establish a perceived, if unspoken, barrier between students of different economic means...
That same year, Summers is criticized for refusing to establish a Latino studies center. Around the same time, the faculty responds angrily to reports that Summers called a law professor’s question “stupid” during a lecture...
Still, despite his attempts to apologize and sort out the conflicts, the positive reputation he tried to establish in Washington was quickly gutted and his “bull in a china-shop” image—an epithet first uttered by West on a radio talk show—was firmly established...
...real world,” like Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner or actor Zach Braff (director and star of the movie Garden State). But the point isn’t that identity buys you nothing online. Rather, it’s that identity is difficult to establish there, and so in large part the web is a meritocracy: it acts like an enormous lens, magnifying good ideas and things people like as the addresses of entertaining sites get bounced around over House open lists and swapped at office water coolers. Indeed the Internet is, along with American Idol...
Three: Like David suggested, you arbitrarily use aggression fueled by immaturity (and perhaps feeling of inferiority) to establish your dominance in this school. O’Doyle rules...