Word: laming
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...Even if he survives impeachment, President Wahid is already a lame duck. But the question of his successor remains far from clear: Vice President Megawati is the country's most popular politician and is constitutionally well-placed to simply assume the reins if Gus Dur is ousted. But Rais clearly has ambitions of his own, and the loose alliance of Islamic parties and former Suharto supporters that kept her out of the top job last time may not be in a hurry to install her. It's not even clear that she wants the top job right now, when increasingly...
...Harvard will have a new president and a new administration. President-elect Lawrence H. Summers has never publicly expressed his views on a living wage at Harvard, and the protesters’ efforts to sway the current administration are handicapped somewhat by Rudenstine’s status as a lame-duck president. The Rudenstine administration is no doubt hesitant to saddle its successor with a decision, and Summers’ views on the subject will make the current discussion almost moot come July. Summers should therefore take the opportunity afforded by this campus discussion to review the University?...
...Through the fog of that party that began about 1970 and ended sometime in the middle of the 1980s, a dim perception of what was happening musically penetrated the mist. And it was so lame! Some top singles of 1974: "The Way We Were" by Babs; "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks; "Dancing Machine" by Jackson 5; "Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John. By 1975 it was getting worse: "Love Will Keep Us Together" by the Captain and Tenille; "My Eyes Adored You" by Frankie Valli; "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John; "One of These Nights" by The Eagles...
...concede that one could make an equally lame list from among most years' top-sellers, lowest-common-demoninator taste being what it is. But I can't recall another time period with the sheer depth of tastelessness that typified the mid-'70s. It wasn't just the No. 1 one song that was bad, No. 100 was equally compromised. The only good music was way, way, way underground - subterranean, troglodytic, journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth stuff...
...Never, ever, ask someone to your House formal over e-mail. It is widely agreed that this practice is just plain lame. Yet it happens year after year. It’s a lose-lose situation: If the answer is no, you will be pitied; if the answer is yes, you will be mocked...