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...shorts and running shoes. An older woman with a modern metal cane walks by; then four tall, deacon-looking men in dark suits and ties. Many people are alone, like me. A father pushes his infant daughter past me in a stroller. She looks up and puts a finger to her lip to signify that one should be quiet. I give her back the signal. We smile in a shared secret...
...lyrics, when they aren't flat-out, call-your-local-Congressperson offensive, can be witty. "And it seems like the media immediately/points a finger at me/so I point one back at them/but not the index or pinky," he raps on one of the album's best cuts, the gruff The Way I Am. Eminem is also fearlessly blunt at times, cruelly deriding the talents of the hottest pop stars. "Don't get me started/these f_______ brats can't sing," he raps about the boy band 'N Sync. "And Britney's garbage/What--is this bitch retarded...
Similarly, if a guard getting paid $4 million a year gets his dunk swatted by Dikembe Mutombo every time, I doubt he'll cry about Mutombo's taunting finger-wag later that night. If he does cry, he can wipe his tears with hundred dollar bills...
...officers spluttering in their wake. The men, who were clutching briefcases and even told guards that they were armed (though in actuality they were not), carried forged credentials from the New York Police Department and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and talked themselves through checkpoints without anyone raising a finger to search them...
Although Browne has correctly put a finger on the first step to improving first-year advising, increasing the ratio is just the first of several improvements the FDO should implement. Currently, the majority of first-years are advised by their proctors. These proctors do not often share the same academic interests as their proctees, but they do live in the same entryway as the students they advise...