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...parting shots is fairly predictable, occasionally yielding some blue ribbon corn and always yielding a surplus of diseased squash. Someone will tell you the charming story of how they learned to love failure. Someone else will try to convert you to the Church of Teach for America. Everyone will lament the hours they spent in Lamont...
...lament the “inconvenience of living in the Quad” based on “the fastidious timing of schedules to match with shuttle times” and the fact that “Quad residents must spend 10 or so minutes traveling every time they want to go from their Houses to the Square or the Yard.” Oh, the humanity! Students at universities with truly far-flung campuses, like Arizona or Michigan, probably wouldn’t mind a 10-minute walk or shuttle ride to class. The same goes for commuter students...
...posts on HarvardFML.com are humorous. Some lament lousy grades, others describe crying into a pillow on Saturday night because of unrequited love. The reasons for keeping those posts private tap into a different sort of embarrassment—one that would be much deeper were the posters’ identities revealed...
...renounces the use of force in international disputes.) The stabilizing presence of the U.S. military in Asia is as crucial as ever to Japan, which shares the same neighborhood as a rising China and a belligerent, nuclear North Korea. But dependence on the U.S. has led some Japanese to lament that they don't live in a "normal" country, one responsible for its own defense and foreign affairs, and Hatoyama's talk of a more equal partnership has played well with an electorate bruised by a perception that Japan often plays the little nephew to Uncle...
...Dares Whines "All I could make out in their language were the words Mr. Bean. They were laughing at me ... making me feel about three inches tall." That was the lament of Arthur Batchelor, a 20-year-old seaman seized in 2007 by Iranian guards in disputed territorial waters on the Iran-Iraq border and held for 12 days along with 14 other British service personnel. In a newspaper interview, Batchelor also confided that he'd "cried like a baby" during his captivity...