Word: nicest
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Capello arrived at the College in September 1993 as a second-term sophomore and a Music concentrator. Three weeks after his arrival he was elected manager of the Jazz Band, joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and gained a reputation for being Harvard's best bassist and one of its nicest guys. But all this was not enough. "There was so much to do here, and I became frustrated with just a music degree," he recalls, "I had never experienced such a diversity of opinion and character...
...ages. His breeding is nice though hardly impeccable--Mama was Solar Slew, a daughter of Seattle Slew, but Papa was a rolling stone named Palace Music. Only 18 months ago, Cigar was a nondescript bay five-year-old with two victories in 13 starts. Today he is the nicest thing to happen to horse racing since Secretariat...
BRING BACK THE SENSE OF SHAME. RESTORE IT TO A place of honor. Give it the nicest office in the brain. It is not only social conservatives who urge it. By now, almost everyone agrees that shame is socially indispensable--the individual's internal police department. Without a barrier of protective shame, the raw sewage of the country's id (pornography, crime, a general violent rottenness and social stupidity) seeps upward, into the ego and superego. A kind of moral imbecility smells up the public places. Life in America begins to look like a long afternoon of shameless, aberration...
...moment I have been looking forward to all day has finally arrived: Dinner time. My roommates can attest to my continual hunger and how meals are quite possibly my favorite time of the day. Besides the food, the kitchen staff, at least in Kirkland House, are some of the nicest people on this campus. Genuinely concerned about you and your day, they are always friendly and they always ask questions. They have always made me look forward to going to dinner...
Obviously, something has gone wrong. Harvard Dining Services, blessed with some of the nicest and hardest-working staff I have ever seen and over $3,000 from each Harvard student, has not been able to satisfy the needs of its students. I am sick and tired of leaving dinner early and hungry, and I am certainly not in the financial condition to buy myself dinner each night. If I pay money for food at this school, then I expect to eat good food...