Word: loudnesses
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...least sensitive among us. It should also nauseate the entire medical profession. Applying medicine to ultimately enable the death of a patient flies in the face of the Hippocratic oath, and that prisons may have to resort to non-medical staff to administer the drugs should come as a loud warning sign that the ruling is unsound...
Sitting at a booth in the Planet Hollywood on Times Square, Earl, 52, alternates between resting his hand Napoleon-like between the buttons of his characteristically loud shirt and smoothing back his disco-king hair. A trio of unhip tourists walk in. "This is my market," he says, nodding at them as they gaze up at the massive movie props--cars, snowmobiles, not-so-miniature planes--dangling from the ceiling. "They'll buy a T shirt when they leave and probably go to a matinee. And they'll probably go to Vegas...
...have an opinion, but if I say it out loud, people will think I am walking for that person’s campaign. I just want to get to those who have not been voting and tell them to study the issues and the candidates and to make up their own minds and vote. They don’t need me telling them whom to vote...
After much loud self-debate about whether to actually get up, I joined my roommates, who had thoughtfully woken me, for an eight-hour bus tour of Western Ireland’s most stunning geographical features; the Burren, a dark group of hills rising up from the bay, and the Cliffs of Moher—the sheerest, most spectacular set of cliffs I’ve ever seen...
...easy atmosphere that accompanies drinking in New Zealand is hard to find at Harvard. Perhaps it is the loud music or the crowded rooms that makes meaningful conversation almost impossible. Perhaps it is the masses of weekend party-goers that roam our campus for parties and mooch alcohol from students they have never met. Perhaps it is simply an aversion to seeing clueless first-years dancing on coffee tables. Whatever it is, it seems to detract from the pleasures of spending time with friends over a few drinks. As we allow alcohol to become an end in itself, we miss...