Word: mobbing
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...Kevin Du 56 ticks into extra time. But the writing was on the wall—the game-winner was only seconds away. Dylan Reese picked out Jon Pelle at the far post with a perfect pass, Pelle one-timed it in, and the jubilant Harvard bench emptied to mob Pelle and celebrate the 5-4 OT win. And herein lies the beauty of sports. In under an hour, on a cold New England night, in a pair of mediocre venues cheering for one good and one not-so-good college team, you can experience certainty and shock, can feel...
...resigning in two minutes!’ to my entire group,” she said. “Technically, we’re not allowed to say anything [about University politics], but this is something you can’t avoid when there’s a mob outside of Mass. Hall...
...stole the show with loopy vocals and wild facial expressions.As good as they were, what the Blanks. needed to clinch victory in “battle” was a little backup. When the crowd was asked to choose the winning band through a show of applause, the Northeastern mob easily overwhelmed the competition. Blanks. hardly stood a chance of winning.After the show, Le-Khac characterized the band as being above the event’s frat-boy nonsense. “It was ridiculous,” he says. “It was fun to be a part...
...that some professors cited at last week’s meeting, Goldin replied: “A paralysis of what, of FAS? That’s the dean’s fault, not Larry’s fault.”“This is rule by the mob,” she added.That “mob” might not reign at all of Harvard’s schools, though.Alan M. Dershowitz—the Frankfurter professor of law who went on ABC’s “Nightline” last year to defend Summers?...
...Chertoff is already talking about plans to improve DHS, no doubt reflecting not only a sincere desire to fix a key federal agency, but also a need to rehabilitate what had been a sterling reputation from his years prosecuting terrorists and mob men. He said his first immediate goal is to stop "stove-piping"-the term he used for agencies within DHS, like FEMA, not sharing information with each other during crises. Before September 11, the intelligence community had similar problems and Chertoff suggested his task in fixing DHS would be just as difficult. But Chertoff better fix his agency...