Word: mention
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...criticism is often made that career politicians journey to Washington and lose touch with the interests of their constituents at home. Harvard council representatives take it a step further: they lose touch with their constituents as soon as they are elected. In its official publication (Which, may I mention, the entire student body does not receive), the council fancies itself the student voice. Yet, with only .01 percent of the student body attending a general meeting, I would call the council no more than an inaudible whisper. The council is in the paradoxical position of being, on paper, the most...
...Family and Medical Leave Act, now six years old. Though about 2 million people a year take parental leave under the act, only half a million of them are men. Kevin is working to even the scales. He has testified before a federal commission and even got a mention in Hillary Rodham Clinton's book It Takes a Village. But the biggest changes are back home. When he and his wife had their second child, in 1996, Kevin was granted a full 12 weeks of paid leave. "It's such a precious thing to hold that little life in your...
...homoeroticism. All the more reason to keep his authorship secret. (In this context there is a telling silence in Richard II. The historic King was notorious for a homosexual affair with the earl's ancestor Robert de Vere. Shakespeare's play begins after that affair is over, with no mention of the relative.) Thus while the earl lived, he hid behind the name of a semiliterate hick turned actor; and Shakespeare of Stratford became the literary beard of the Earl of Oxford...
WILLY: The Supreme Court! And he didn't even mention it! CHARLEY: He don't have to--he's gonna...
...list of unprofessionalisms go on. I could mention the time I said out loud, to a friend on the penthouse floor of Hilles, "I guess I'm wasting my time and theirs as well." Moments later, a pantsuited woman standing 10 feet from me perked up, walked over and introduced herself as the representative from the firm I was interviewing with. I cringe to think how much of our conversation she overheard. As you can probably guess, I didn't get a second round interview...