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...donor face - not having that overall comfort knowing how effective the resources are." On a recent trip Crowley made with colleagues from the U.N., he went to an area of Adhamiyah, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood in northern Baghdad, full of internally displaced people, or IDPs in humanitarian lingo. For some of his colleagues who had been in the country a year it was one of their very first such visits. Through the thick glass he could see the different living arrangements of the IDPs, some living in middle-class housing, others living in ramshackle buildings made of cement, wood...
...only fly but evidently can be swallowed and regurgitated, as Chris Brown demonstrates (note the phallic imagery here). Other highlights include spasmodic dancing, Chris Brown’s horrendous facial tics, and a holographic mixing board/control panel which T-Pain masterfully coordinates. T-Pain explains, in some futuristic algebra lingo in the beginning of “Shawty Get Loose,” that “Greatness plus greatness equals great greatness.” But if this “great greatness” is really just a tweaked version of the world depicted in the Jacksons?...
SIDEBAR: DJ Lingo for the Layman
...think you’ve got all the Harvard lingo down. We’ve got our TFs instead of TAs, and “final clubs” instead of the much more universally recognized “frats.” What else is there to know, right? Wrong. FM digs into Harvard’s Archives to pull up some of the lesser-known Harvard slang. Take a look: 1) LoHo – Lowell House 2) Clubbie – a member of a final club 3) River Rat – one who lives...
...created by the differing occupations in his social circle, but admits feeling a certain disconnect when in conversation with some of his peers in the financial sector. “There are the people who get really excited about it and try to talk about it. They have a lingo, and everything. I don’t know where their enthusiasm comes from, because what they’re doing doesn’t seem to be particularly meaningful.” Mahan says, “I personally do feel called to serve, and I want that service...