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...procedure, as well as feel out my personal position on the issue. Admittedly, it was a precarious situation, as it was difficult to know whether I was speaking to her on behalf of the Crimson Staff, or simply regarding my own personal stance on the President’s faux pas. More importantly, however, I was wondering why the latter would be important. If I was coming on the show to discuss how Harvard’s student newspaper came to a consensus on the Faculty-Larry debate, why would we focus on what I, as an individual, thought...
...reputation seems to be a universal one—and although Summers’ faux pas and public relations debacles at Harvard can account for most of it, his name has been inextricably linked to controversy since the early nineties...
...Pudding Pot, a gift basket with products from local retailers valued at approximately $5,000, and the undergraduates’ constant stream of verbal barbs, Robbins received a motley shower of additional presents. Towards the beginning of the roast, he was offered a baggie of what appared to be faux marijuana, which he swiftly pocketed...
...awkward counter stools of years past have been replaced by a noble slab of green marble, factory-issued bar code stickers still attached. Capping off the two—possibly three—figure renovations with faux-maple shutters perched above the open-air kitchen, Tommy has transformed what was once merely a house into a home...
...Björk’s Icelandic ’80s band the Sugarcubes, for both groups’ consciousness of (and commitment to) the fact that their translations might not translate so well into English. But Total is all synth, bips, beeps, and Euro-kitsch nostalgia like the faux-Gainsbourg “Orange Mécanique,” in which the woman plays the narrator, her moody tones accompanied by “Melody Nelson”-like bits of soprano...