Word: gasp
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Don’t lie, you know you love that little mid-class catnap. And we all get pissed when section rolls around and we are forced to (gasp!) pay attention. Now imagine if you were in a class where such glorious oblivion was essentially impossible, as it is for Jenny Y. Wang ’10, the only student in Erving Research Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer’s Freshman Seminar “Seeing by Spectroscopy.” For those of us who never got past the elementary acronym ROYGBIV, Professor Klemperer says...
...relations. Economic self-interest and cultural identity—nationalism, ethnicity, and religion—seem to be trumping higher-order concerns (e.g. ending genocide, disposing of dictators, protecting human rights) everywhere. As America’s high-mindedness is discredited in Iraq, the world is witnessing the last gasp of “big ideas,” and elsewhere, their replacement by a new brand of international politics colored by Russia and China...
...University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Tufts all denied interest in Harvard’s top job. Some did so with a gust of humor (Duke President Richard H. Brodhead: “What a foolish question. I already have a great job”) and others with a gasp of exasperation (head of Penn Amy Gutmann ’71, who made it deep into the search that resulted in Lawrence H. Summers’ selection six years ago: “I am absolutely committed to being Penn’s president, and I am not interested...
...great to see everyone’s reaction,” said Cuse, who is also a writer for the show. “That was the first time I’ve watched it with other people.”Fans also let out an audible gasp when Cuse revealed after the screening that a revelatory anagram appeared in the episode, one that went undetected by most of the audience. Cuse acknowledged that he and the writers often place small—but significant—visual clues in many of the episodes in order to keep viewers guessing...
...having to do with human hair. The Portland, Ore. police department quietly removed the objects that they considered “harmless.” Apparently, unlike the BPD, Portland police aren’t drawn en masse toward bright shiny lights. (Or to college students having—gasp!—fun, for that matter. But we suppose terrorists, or reckless advertisers, could hide bombs in kegs at the Harvard-Yale tailgate if students weren’t required to wear pink bracelets.) In the aftermath of the fake fake attacks, Jan. 31, 2007 will always be remembered...