Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Arriving at the crosswalk at Holyoke Street, though I knew I was still rushed, I realized I was at least going to make it to my destination on time. A feeling of relief settled over me as I waited for the light to turn green. For a brief moment, everything was in order. Life was good. Maybe, just maybe, everything was going to work out all right...
This is a deeply worrying situation. Why do the more senior, and one would imagine wiser, members of the Phoenix club feel that this is appropriate treatment of animals? Would they feel as comfortable treating a human child in this way? Presumably not. But stop and think for a moment why a child would never be treated in this fashion, whereas there is little concern about the well-being of chickens. Perhaps the Phoenix club seniors feel that chickens are like the caricatures in a Gary Larson cartoon--silly beasts doing silly things. If so, why not do what...
...Soon after, in the only dominant sing-along moment of the entire concert, the crowd chanted the refrain to "Lazy Boy Dash": "Son, you better get up/You better get up while you can." The crowd certainly did get up for the rest of the set, and the band's final song, the angst-ridden mid-'90s hit "High" which spawned some friendly, energetic shoving. The Paradise was finally rocking...
...them where they are anyway and just create tension in a rooming group or a friendship. "It's just not worth it," they think, and so they are willing to step back and keep their ideas to themselves. They can see Harvard isn't the place where each existential moment deserves its own observations, where "what it all means" might be as important as the bottom line...
...sense of flashback to the bad old days of the Cold War was underscored by President Boris Yeltsin's warning Thursday that President Clinton, in criticizing Russia's conduct in Chechnya, "must have forgotten for a moment what Russia is - it has a full arsenal of nuclear weapons." And in the ultimate d?j? vu, the Russian leader's remarks came during a visit to Beijing in order to drum up support in the face of Western pressure over Chechnya. Post-communist Russia's decline and NATO's bombing campaign over Kosovo earlier this year have cemented a fiercely anti-Western...