Word: lashing
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James and Keel have survived the game of finance: James is wealthy enough to bypass financial aid altogether; Keel is poor enough to get a free ride. Students caught in the middle class, however, often lose out. As Miranda I. Lash ’03 explains, “Financial aid covers those who are extremely poor. And people who are rich obviously don’t need any money. But there is a point in the middle class where you can almost make it to pay, but you can’t pay as much as they expect...
...felt it might be disrespectful to the victims and their families and we felt if we made ourselves visible in that way people would lash out at us because we’re Arab and the people who committed the attack are Arab,” Hamad says. Of all the ripple effects the U.S.’s day of terror has had at Harvard, one of the most visible has probably been the more public profile SAS and the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS) have been forced to assume...
...It’s OK to be scared, it’s even OK to be angry, but it’s not OK to lash out violently as a result of those emotions, it’s not OK to target groups of people, it’s not OK to accept ‘collateral damage’ of the lives of innocent people for a retaliation against terrorism,” he said...
...battle similar to those between rappers. "When creativity expresses itself in an immature way, it can often be destructive," says Randy David, a sociology professor at the University of the Philippines. That's especially true, he points out, in a class-ridden country where hackers have the chance to lash out at powerful institutions they consider repressive. "In cyberspace it doesn't matter if you're a Roxas, a Lopez or a Zobel," he says, ticking off the Philippines' leading families. "No one knows your identity. You can't begin to imagine the impact this has on a hierarchical society...
Especially hot are extensions, in which a dozen or so individual hairs are glued onto the lash line and worn for a few weeks. "The effect is very subtle," says makeup artist Laura Mercier, who spruced up Sarah Jessica Parker for the Golden Globe Awards. "It's not like putting on a strip of fake eyelashes the way people did in the '70s." Celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Molly Shannon are flocking to Manhattan's J. Sisters International, where a 45-minute procedure--which the salon says is imported from the beach glamour of Brazil--costs $55. Demand...