Word: mire
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While French never made it to my study card, I also withdrew from Social Studies 10 instead of dividing it with credit, grandly capping off four months of Durkheim and Tocqueville with a failing grade on my transcript. Perhaps I was distracted by the mire of bureaucracy that switching concentrations entailed. Nonetheless, I take full responsibility for my incompetence. What baffles me, however, is the fact that my advising “parachute” never opened above...
...should not be forgotten after freshman year—if problems persist, so should teaching.The new FAS dean needs to seriously address Harvard’s failing undergraduate education, before we begin to lag even further behind rival schools. Amid territorial faculty departments, a large FAS deficit and a mire of Harvard bureaucracy, it will be up to the dean to bring forth reforms that will ensure the quality and success of the Harvard education for years to come...
Omar al-Dewachi’s studies of displaced Iraqis took an uncomfortable real-life turn after the Harvard Ph.D. candidate became caught in a legal mire that is shutting him out of the United States...
...bear to think of her spending her life as their neighbors do, with so many omissions; a life blank as if unlived." But by now, the police are cracking down on freeloaders like Dan, and he gets his just deserts. Soon enough, Dan gets lost in the moral mire of this world. Some exploited construction workers enlist him to take on their employer, a shady real estate tycoon who blunts the offensive by offering Dan a free apartment. Dan has an affair with a fresh-from-the-countryside "masseuse" and resolves to right a dreadful wrong she has suffered...
...album opens with a relentless, heavily distorted bass line in “Jique,” which carries the song to an eerie, heavenly bridge before descending once again into the dance-inspiring mire of bass. “Never Met a German,” a Bloc Party-esque rock track, has Sciubba fantasizing about being a general, telling the listener, “I almost have an orgasm when the tanks are rolling/ Crashing through the borders...