Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Insert here a quotation from a Shakespearean comedy about illusions and switcheroos. Except that here it's relentlessly morbid and with little song and dance to the loud-and-clear cynicism. After getting flak for his platitudes, Billings confronts Sgt. Pompano with his suspicion that she doesn't think spirituality and hard-nosed policing (reality) can coexist. It's not that she doesn't think they can, but that it doesn't matter--they're no threat, he's just another rube, another biped bovine...
...general levels of euphoria fostered by the Undergraduate Council, the Office of the Dean and donuts (and the possibility of more donuts to come), this little college community is chock-full of centripetal force. And inertia. And unfortunately, there's hardly any movement round here overcome such problems--except, of course, for every 11th day, when Dining Services drops a Jamaican Jerk Chicken bomb on an unsuspecting student body...
...will either figure out what you're doing here or decide that you will continue to putter through the rest of your college days, and make more of what follows. Either way, a certain arrogance sets in that allows juniors to think they have little left to learn, except what their thesis might teach them...
...stuck with the bill. Industry leader Citibank just purchased 800,000 accounts from Mellon Bank, part of an industrywide consolidation that last year saw 20 million accounts worth an estimated $32 billion change hands. A new owner can jack up rates and fees when it buys your account, except in a few states that let you keep the old terms. So make sure you watch out for the fine print detailing any changes...
...story might have ended there, except for two things. First, Motichka, who specialized in nude self-portraits, continued to take them; she became a symbol of the disfiguring effects of breast surgery, and a photo of her scarred chest wound up on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Second, it turned out that the surgery she so vividly publicized may not have been necessary. Her tumor, she believes, could have been handled by a much simpler procedure that would have left her breast intact. Late last month a New York jury agreed, awarding Motichka $2.2 million...