Word: expression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...went by I realized that my arrest and this day would inevitably come. I am painfully aware that I have deeply hurt many, many people, including the members of my family, my closest friends, business associates and the thousands of clients who gave me their money. I cannot adequately express how sorry I am for what I have done. I am here today to accept responsibility for my crimes by pleading guilty and, with this plea allocution, explain the means by which I carried out and concealed my fraud...
...have been lost in the four years since her last solo effort. She’s made the metamorphosis from her more raucous indie-folk inspired early albums to a more mature singer-songwriter niche, but it’s not clear that the softer spirit allows her to express her full potential. The occasional ominous rumbling of drums or the wound-up melodrama of vibrating string sections hint at powerful release, but Mirah tends to fall back onto lovely but less memorable softness. Mirah’s restraint seems set on driving home the pessimism underlying so many...
...campaign organized by the Student Labor Action Movement on campus, according to Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-’09, an active member of SLAM and an inactive Crimson editorial writer. “[The campaign] was initiated by alumni in order to show solidarity and express that alums are watching the layoff issues too,” she said. The protest outside of the Harvard Club of New York was organized by recent graduates Kelly L. Lee ’07, Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, J. Claire Provost...
...Aboard! Riding on Amtrak's Acela Express trains just got cheaper. The railroad is offering 25% off prices for tickets purchased 14 days in advance, meaning a one-way ticket between Washington, D.C., and New York City can cost as little as $99, and between New York and Boston, just $79. The sale lasts through June 26, with limited availability...
Even worse than the incessant expression of inane private thoughts is the attempt to express complex private emotions in Facebook’s limited text boxes. Publicly paraded sentiments are inevitably devalued as a result of their superficial context. This inappropriateness is most apparent when the most personal emotions, such as those associated with death, begin to decorate public forums. When someone with a Facebook dies, his or her profile often remains active, either to commemorate that person’s life or because the family does not have the legal rights to close it. Messages such...