Word: nothingism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The clenched fist flew into Nick H. Weil '00 and instantly, the audience knew this was no ordinary Harvard show. Saturday night, during a production of the Gershwin musical "Crazy for You" at the Hasty Pudding Theatre, the fake fighting on the stage got out of hand and real blood...
"Seven card stud. Dealt first two cards down, a five and a two, nothing going on. First card up at 10. A few more cards up: got a king, a jack and a nine.
I get the feeling that I'm not alone on this one. I have a friend who is "maybe" going to go pre-med "eventually," "just because." Someone else once told me that they would like nothing better than to sit in bed all day and watch television. Another person...
"It had nothing to do with legislature," he says. "It was using the offices of bully pulpit to advance the issues that matter to me."
Standards among America's public schools have been pushed relentlessly - some say unrealistically - upward in recent years, fueled by parent frustration over their children's poor performance and administrators' embarrassment over their schools' reputations. But while higher standards are an admirable goal, they can hurt the students they were meant...