Word: mottoes
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...alums. Deborah Orin ’68, the Post’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief, published an opinion piece last Monday titled “Harvard Loves A Thug” in which she concluded that “something is very wrong when Harvard—whose motto is “veritas,” Latin for “truth”—feels comfortable instructing its alums to bow down to evil thugs.” A memo sent to alums seeking more information detailed North Korea?...
...Then there's more yoga, lunch and time for a treatment, perhaps from Antonin Zemlicka, a Czech-born therapist who punctuates his savagely deep massages with epigrammatic statements. "A little torture is good," he says. "A lot of torture is better." That could easily serve as the retreat's motto. The matutinal cycle of torment repeats in the afternoon, and every day, a treadmill of yoga and yomps. Jeans herself describes the retreat as "a health boot camp." "The most effective kick start comes from a combination of diet and exercise," she explains. She runs her camp for 12 weeks...
Says Cheri Weeks, a child psychologist and a mother of three in Los Angeles: "I know that my parents have always been supportive, and these were the same people who spanked me when I was growing up. My parents' motto and my motto is that I need to discipline my children so that the world doesn't have...
...master her marketing tactics and penchant for catchy phrases. Even the revamped SFC has failed to garner the amount of attention that now follows HRL. Though, not everyone wants that type of recognition.FETAL FIREPOWER“No publicity is bad publicity was HRL’s old motto,” Grizzle explains. Last semester, for example, HRL put up posters stating that more African-Americans are killed by abortions than any other cause. Perhaps, for HRL, the old adage is true—if inflammatory statements lead to increased awareness, then so be it.Not everyone agrees.The...
DIED. Fausto Vitello, 59, founder of the cult punk-skater magazine Thrasher, who in the late '70s sparked a thrill-seeking urban subculture of skateboarders who jumped curbs and railings instead of just ramps in specialty parks; of a heart attack, while riding his bike; in Woodside, Calif. The motto of the still vibrant movement: Skate and Destroy...