Word: glorious
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...Harvard administration has a long and glorious history of ignoring the concerns of Harvard's students. In a country whose citizens have always been taught to think, question and be active, it is shameful that an educational institution so consistently, continually and blatantly ignores the thoughts, questions and actions of its students. It happens that the administration has finally ignored the one student group with the power and membership to oppose them. They have awakened the sleeping lion of student power, and we will not easily return to our slumber. Progressive Action Network
There are countless examples of the underdogs winning out over fat cats who were overconfident and lazy, who just didn't work as hard. Take the case of Buster Douglas, Jr., who beat a seemingly indomitable but actually flabby and pariah-surrounded Mike Tyson one glorious night in Japan five years ago. Buster then was bitten by the overconfidence bug that bit Tyson, and was knocked silly by Evander Holyfield. (Buster has since ballooned to a 400-pound man with dread locks. "I always hated fighting," he says...
...third time in my years at Harvard, I have been witness to The Game, a glorious athletic tradition of our prestigious Ivy League. While colleges across the country have much greater football followings than that at either Harvard or Yale, we nonetheless try to emulate some of our Big 10 role models--at least for the weekend--by making a big to-do about this contest...
...whole, the acting is fine, if it is a bit overdone. Stokers, Berne, Polen and Epstein do a good job in portraying the Gold clan in its glorious maelstrom of neurosis and fierce love for one another. The sets in which the characters sit, argue and agonize are marvelous. A salute should most definitely go to set designer Matthew Lavesque for the just-right yuppie Manhattan apartment, complete with a colorful DNA molecule model perched neatly on the television set--cheap symbolism, but it looks good...
...glorious finish in the Ancient Eight Tournament ended the season for the Harvard women's volleyball team on a triumphant note...