Word: grading
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...dating somebody else. Your best pick-up line: So, how’s your boyfriend these days? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: You’d be surprised to hear the fearful moral depths to which I stooped to get that last passing grade in AP Environmental Science senior year of high school. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: “I fancy you.” Favorite childhood toy: LEGOs, Beast Wars Transformers, and throwing a baseball against the wall of the garage, because being an only child...
...recognize the picture of the scantily clad woman on the front cover for the miserable escapist fantasy that it is: that’s no Lara Croft knockoff, that’s the digital version of the cheerleader that broke Mr. Dibbell’s heart in 10th grade. Unfortunately for the author, while his precious “digital l00t” may in fact have real market value, all the gold doubloon clipart in the world can’t fix his social deficiencies or bad breath. On the plus side, a book about fake ambitions, repressed fantasies...
...that Bill's doesn't. His liberalism seems practical, in keeping with his "can't we all get along?" bonhomie. Hillary's liberalism has a more admonitory edge, in keeping with her buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When she says, "It takes a village," they...
...enrich a favorite charity upon their death. But rather than leave a legacy at life's end, they choose to live their legacy now. For Maxworthy, that meant using his connections to reclaim tons of fruit destined for the dump because, though perfectly edible, it wasn't supermarket grade. "There's plenty of fast food," he says, "but [those with low incomes] have very limited access to fresh produce...
...professional designers of Asian descent and began trying to make contact, hoping designers would be receptive to participating in a fashion show at Harvard. “We had to persuade everyone and convince them it was for real and that it was going to be a really professional-grade fashion show,” Kim says.What followed was a month-long effort of online research, phone calls and inquiries at designers’ stores in Korea.“We had criteria that included the designer having to be high-end and have had a showing at a fashion...