Word: fluff
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...fame as a rock band, but before it broke out of Athens, Georgia, and found mainstream success, it was a college-dance-party band. How the West Was Won, with its staccato, insistent, danceable rhythm, returns the band to its roots. But the song isn't simply clubland fluff; there are more than a few arty touches, including the sustained existential howl Stipe uses to punctuate the end of several passages...
...having a presumptive presidential candidate go out of his way to praise a film in which space invaders blow up the Capitol (shortly after he announced that security there should be reduced...), there's something slightly unsettling about the shift that commentary represents in the balance of power between fluff media and serious public discourse. It's disturbing to have reached a point where officials feel that they have to play follow-the-leader with Hollywood (not renowned as a think tank for sound public policy). Leaders should be spending more time trying to set an agenda of national concerns...
...their parents, are therefore at the mercy of University administrators. (Not incidentally, it is the middle class students whose family and personal incomes fall just above the assistance line who are most burdened by rising tuition costs.) Given this assurance of payment, Harvard has an obligation to eliminate administrative fluff. The University bureaucracy is big and bloated, faulty investment of dollars which might otherwise have been allotted to student services...
With house resources already insufficient to accommodate the needs of students, the introduction of race relations tutors in every house will only spread them thinner. Harvard already has abundant resources to deal with minority concerns; introducing new efforts into the houses is little more than multiculural fluff...
During Harvard summers, many students feel guilty if they take jobs scooping ice cream or camp counseling, because they worry that such "fluff" will make their resumes look paltry next to those of their more gungho peers...