Word: glorious
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...Harvard, we are surrounded with institutions and the temptations of the glorious public recognition they provide. While at the College, we are asked to comp the exclusive Lampoon and Advocate, we are punched for final clubs or the Signet Society, and we are considered for official, titled roles in student organizations. In senior year, we are sought after by firms with names like Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan, we are recruited by professional schools like Stanford Law and Harvard Medical, and we are nominated for Rhodes and Marshall scholarships...
...have been case studies in miscommunication, danger and betrayal. They have also been examples of how half hearted support by the U.S. has, in some respects, been even worse than no support at all. Allawi's group, for instance, was nearly wiped out less than 18 months after that glorious hilltop night, when Saddam overran its camps with a tank offensive. Up to 2,000 fighters were captured and executed, leaving the survivors wondering why U.S. forces hadn't stepped...
...with a professional Democratic party strategist. A degree of organization is necessary to run a successful campaign for any office, but Rawlins' inflated sense of self-importance was evident in the countless news items and word-of-mouth reports regarding the sophisticated War Room she employed to win that glorious office in the basement of Holworthy...
...parents and I were close in high school, but the daily phone call tradition began by chance, because I had to share the funny incidents of my first year (that glorious time of self-discovery and maturation, that wonderful year of randomized roommates) with them. The stories were legendary. There was the time one of our roommates let someone use our fridge to keep some baking ingredients. One of the jars-dubiously labeled 'intestinal flora'-caught our attention. Only later did my sister, a medical school student, tell me that if we had any sort of direct contact with...
Another innovative young college woman has her 3D screen-saver trumpet the date of her next glorious reunion with her boyfriend. The screen-saver simply flashes "Jason is coming to visit me" while gyrating giddily on the screen of her laptop. The best thing about the screen-saver-boyfriend-reminder is that any visitors, and of course every roommate, knows immediately that there is an impending visit from your special someone...