Word: meanness
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...When you see guys coming into spring training camp 30 pounds heavier than they ended the previous season, or they had gained four or fives miles an hour on their fastball, I mean, those things are not normal. My whole career was played in the peak of the steroids era. I saw guys throwing 87 miles an hour one year and 95 the next. Unfortunately, a lot of people, the press, the owners, the players, they turned the other cheek. I was like, 'Are you serious? Can't you see what's going on? Are you seriously going...
...achieve monogamous bliss; failure to assign that label can result in the abandonment of a healthy relationship for more “promising” prospects. This growing imperative to classify, and the anxiety over other peoples’ assumptions when that classification is inevitably removed, has changed the meaning of modern intimacy. Digesting complicated interpersonal interactions into broadcastable realities, virtual relationship statuses have come to define actual relationship statuses; indeed, the three words “in a relationship” have gained so much power that they can serve as the focal point of a breakup...
...with the aim that students will be welcomed in any of our programs and directed to the most appropriate help. Without doubt, we are fortunate that our combined BHAC services are the best staffed, both in numbers and expertise, of any college in the country. Still, the efforts that mean the most to me are those that aim to increase student participation in promoting the well being of our community...
This story says a lot about success. Harvard educators have more than education as a job; they must help students identify what the “rocks” in their world are at any point. By “rocks,” I mean the things a student wants to place high priority on when assessing progress made or distance still to go. Students want to be successful, but too often they see success in a limited way (for instance, a near flawless transcript) or they don’t really know what they are working toward...
...Making the vote tabulation public would also invigorate the weeks before the Oscar show. So-called experts give odds on the nominees in top categories, but the knowledge that only the winner will be revealed renders that exercise useless; now it'd mean something. And all those office Oscar pools could promote, in addition to the winners, any number of beguiling side bets. Who can pick the top five in the most categories - in order? How many votes will separate Sean Penn from Mickey Rourke? Does The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, seemingly left in the dust by Slumdog Millionaire...