Word: grossness
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...contrast to the reputation Hammonds has gained over the past year, her full-time predecessor—Benedict H. Gross ’71, who left the deanship in August 2007—was noted for an inclusive leadership style...
...then-UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 described Gross as a “friend to Harvard undergraduates” with a legacy that “improved Harvard College.” During his tenure, Gross was recognized for establishing the Cambridge Queen’s Head pub, the Lamont Library Café, the Student Organizations Center at Hilles, and the New College Theater, and for overseeing significant curricular change...
...Still, both professors in FAS and College administrators say that it is unfair to compare the legacy of Gross to the “unprecedented” reality Hammonds is currently facing...
Moments after they win the National Hockey League championship, the delirious members of the victorious team invariably pass the Stanley Cup around the ice and essentially make out with the silver trophy. It's pretty gross. After all, don't these guys know that during its 116-year history, liters of backwash have sloshed around the Cup as countless players and fans chugged champagne out of this glorified keg? Don't they know that at least one dog - and a Kentucky Derby-winning thoroughbred - have slurped chow from the Cup? And that both infants and inebriated adults have literally treated...
...foreign climes; language-dependent American comedies usually tank.) Box-office reports focus narrowly on the Sunday numbers in U.S. and Canadian theaters. But euros and rupees and yen are good money too, and sometimes movies that aren't quite blockbusters in North America make the bulk of their gross abroad...