Word: insult
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...third period mercifully arrived, Northeastern took time out of bullying Harvard players to pour more salt on the Crimson's wounds with another goal. Keams bazooked a perfectly placed shot from the top of the perimeter that exploded in the top of the net to leave the final insult...
...restaurant one night, as he chats over dinner with his attorney, Stephen Neal, the legal Houdini behind his release, Keating confronts naked hostility: a complete stranger, recognizing his craggy features like a ghost from an old "wanted" poster, drops by his table to hurl an unprovoked insult. He's unperturbed. "When I was first brought into the lockup I faced a howling, screaming mob," Keating says matter-of-factly. He points out that unlike other major white-collar felons of the 1980s, who sojourned in comparatively luxurious "Club Feds," he did "hard time." On the inside, he was known...
...Hill family's new rodent friends add insult to a more profound injury...
Without an honor code, Harvard remains an institution overtly suspicious of its students. Proctored exams, a practice that would disappear with an honor code, insult the very integrity we are meant to have. The proctors prowl up and down the aisles with the suspicion that we might cheat. Thus, during exams, students are reduced to "potential cheaters" and not considered mature individuals who have gathered to learn. Only one person can go to the bathroom at a time during an exam at Harvard. What kind of trust does this imply the University has in its students? Harvard applicants are accepted...
...people who have the credentials to insult the Dalmatian for its own good are, of course, the very breeders who have spent their lives presenting it as the noblest of canines. It's as if the teenagers who have been standing in a two-mile ticket line for a Foo Fighters concert started buttonholing passing reporters to warn that grunge can lead to poor study habits and might even be a bridge addiction to the music of Lawrence Welk. In a typical radio interview I heard, one authority was going on about how demanding Dalmatians are, and how much hair...