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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...attributes that make up a certain quiet acceptance of one's lot, even saintliness - think of Pope John XXIII. At the same time, what the books call false humility - the act of constantly saying that one is not worthy, a not-so-subtle way of provoking someone else to exclaim, "Oh! But you are!" - is one of the most annoying of all character traits. Uriah Heep, the creeping, up-sucking piece of dog s___ in Charles Dickens' David Copperfield - forever telling everyone how 'umble he is - must be one of the most loathsome figures in world literature. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Limits of Humility: How Obama Got It Right | 10/9/2009 | See Source »

...staff, and scarily committed amateur athletes can do to make up for the miniscule bedrooms, scanty house spirit, and (literally) crappy dining hall. Just know that you can eat your tears away on Housing Day when Winthrop lures you to the river with food and beverage. "But really?!" you exclaim. "Worse than Dunster?!! Did any other house actually get a 'subprime”'rating??...BUT WE HAVE RIVER VIEWS...

Author: By Emma M. Lind | Title: The Housing Crisis: Winthrop House | 3/18/2009 | See Source »

...heaven. Conflicts between students in section are more common than we would like to admit. When you have selected your section arch-nemesis, proceed to (picture them naked and leave illustrated notes criticizing their physique/learn a mellifluous ocarina dirge to play whenever they speak and then when they finish, exclaim, “As if!”/follow up on all their comments by saying, “Building off what this major league code-orange intergalactic dickswamp supreme just said…”).But not all conflicts are between students—sometimes, students...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Please, Write Your Own Damn Column | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Whenever terrorist attacks such as these are carried out (such generalizations can be made because they occur so frequently), pundits predictably exclaim that we must not allow hatred for Islam to fester, but rather, we must remind ourselves that terrorists represent a fringe movement and that tolerance should be extended to the rest of the Muslim world. A witch-hunt may not be in order, but there is no question that the attacks in Mumbai were fueled by the Muslim fanaticism that has grown so prevalent. The Wall Street Journal reported that as two gunmen poised to fire...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Lessons From Mumbai | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...East, Europeans were titillated. Americans, by contrast, looked on in disbelief as Sarkozy flaunted his extramarital relationship with a gorgeous diva, the former lover of Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, and Donald Trump, who openly boasts of her “preference” for polygamy. And Bill Clinton, we exclaim, was pilloried because he got a blowjob from some chunky and unremarkable intern...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Puritanical America, J’Accuse! | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

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