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Well, allow me to retort. Harvard students are grown up enough to vote in the national elections of a country of 260 million, which the administration needs to be reminded is larger, more important, and even--gasp--wealthier than our precious University. Those of us in Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) programs are grown up enough to train to kill and, if necessary, die for this country. But the administration is probably right: I'm not grown up enough to choose where I live...
...places serve good burgers," Hooters Vice President Mike McNeil told a news conference Wednesday. "The Hooters Girls, with their charm and all-American sex appeal, are what our customers come for." Under an Equal Opportunity Commission order to -- gasp -- hire men to work alongside the Hooters girls, McNeil struck back with a Washington news conference-cum-pep rally designed to protest the decision. Fighting for its corporate life as well as the right to burgers served by waitresses in extremely tight tank tops, the company has taken out full-page ads featuring a swarthy man wearing the distinctive Hooters uniforms...
Indeed, two Harvard fumbles led to a 14-point swing against Dartmouth. Andy Laurence's fumble on the goal-line stopped a last-gasp drive in the closing minutes, while a Kweli Thompson fumble in the Crimson end zone gave the Big Green a touchdown early in the game...
...Little Colonel," who in 1941 rose from co-managing the Houston Post to commanding the Women's Army Corps. She was appointed the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; her resignation two years later prompted Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to gasp, "What? The best man in the Cabinet...
...Center, on the show "abstinence was not a choice." Wrong. The main character--the one everyone knew, identified with, turned in to see--chose not to sleep with her boyfriend. She made this decision under great pressure from her boyfriend. He dumped her as a result ... and, gasp, her life went on! And they got back together in the end. I'd call this presenting abstinence as a viable option. What, you don't think that the actions of just one character can have any moral force? Then stop whining about Murphy Brown already...