Word: flushes
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...good topic to me, as usually Anonymous is one of my most outspoken critics. Another reader, “Jim from Lowell House,” sent me a request to write about the urinal in the Science Center bathroom that makes a real funny sound when you flush it. Jim, I can’t explain to you how relieved I am to find out that there is someone at Harvard other than me who also appreciates the hilarity of that particular urinal. But let’s be realistic here—my columns need to be around...
...also picked up much of the political operation of Jeb Bush, who is the could-have-been candidate most longed for on the right. Money doesn't seem to be a problem either; Romney raised $6.5 million on a single National Call Day in early January. The campaign is flush enough to be on the air at this early date with ads to introduce Romney to voters as a "business legend" who "rescued the Olympics" and "turned around a Democratic state." The Mormon in the race also points out - jokingly, but with an edge - that he is the only leading...
...thread the needle, thanks largely to the good sense that seems to come with a few gray hairs. Young Europeans need to listen to those who are older and wiser. While you may have sought to include this point in your analysis, it was a bit lost amid the flush of beautiful young faces that graced the cover. Greg Ender, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...
...potato-left-behind effort. 9) Shut off your computer when you go to sleep. For real, the screen saver doesn’t save shit. 10) Use the green-handle toilets for water conservation. If you don’t see green, you have permission not to flush. 11) Steal bulbs from Lamont’s fifth floor lamps and leave a note: “No Studying after Daylight hours.” 12) Wash everything on cold cycle. Just do it. 13) Start a group in each house devoted to environmental issues...oh wait, never mind. 14) Shame...
...continent the world too often sees only for its suffering. The country's rise and fall and rise again have given many Ghanaians--and many Africans--a more realistic understanding of what it will take to develop their continent's fragile fortunes than they had in the first flush of freedom. And it has left them with a deep appreciation of basic principles that others take for granted: stability, democracy, jobs...