Word: fronting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Harvard men’s basketball team (9-3) would never trail again en-route to its 66-53 victory over George Washington (9-3) in front of a packed crowd at Lavietes Pavilion last night...
...media frenzy that ensnared even President Barack Obama. Police were tipped off by a passerby who says she saw what appeared to be a break-in at the home. But the individuals she saw were actually Gates and his car driver forcing their way through the professor's jammed front door. Police Sgt. James Crowley, who arrived on the scene to investigate, said that Gates reacted belligerently and refused to identify himself when asked, but Gates said that he cooperated fully and that officers had targeted him because he is black. The alleged line "ya, I'll speak with your...
...design in question read "'I think of all of Harvard men as sissies.' - F. Scott Fitzgerald," on the front, and "We Agree. The Game 2009" on the back. The characters in This Side of Paradise, from which the quotation was taken, were discussing the merits of Princeton, where Fitzergerald himself was an alum...
...clever and well-informed anti-Establishment commentary.) Indeed, it resembles nothing so much as that other, more populous hamlet, the right-wing Fox News and Limbaugh slum. Hilariously, as we stagger from one awful decade into the next, there has been a coagulation of these extremes - a united front against the turgid ceremonies of legislative democracy, like compromise, and disdain for the politician most responsible for nudging our snarled checks and balances toward action, Barack Obama. The issue that has brought them together is opposition to the Senate's health care-reform bill, which makes some sense on the right...
While the Obamas were at dinner, a security barrier was set up outside the restaurant. But it didn't inconvenience diners at nearby restaurants too badly, says Janice Respicio, a manager of Gyotaku Japanese restaurant. "We had traffic in front, but not too bad," Respicio says. "But we were pretty busy...