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...sweat row. These are colloquial terms to the lightweights, almost as commonplace or ordinary as is wearing a trash bag to the MAC, QRAC, or Newell Boathouse to erg for 45 minutes. Much like wrestlers, most lightweights wear sweatsuits to sweat out excess water weight, the more extreme opting for gloves or hats. I layer up with three pairs of sweatpants and three sweatshirts before biking for 50 minutes, sure that the MAC would accuse me of being homeless and send me away. About 30 minutes into my ride, another lightweight comes to the MAC to join me. He examines...
...crime-ridden barrio of Petare on Caracas' east side is, for obvious reasons, not considered much of a tourist destination. The rundown neighborhood is packed with cinder-block shacks, and its streets are filled with sewage. Most vacationers in Venezuela would opt for the country's tropical Caribbean beaches. That's why neighbors peered out of their windows inquisitively when a recent caravan of Americans climbed up the steep slopes of the country's largest barrio, which many middle- and upper-class Venezuelans dare not enter. The group, from professors to real estate agents, ages...
...opportunity to do so over the past year—first in its failure to pass direct elections, and now its perplexing efforts to maintain a third committee when there’s no reason for it to be maintained. We remind students that they have the right to opt-out of the UC term-bill fee in protest of the recent UC delinquency. If our elected government continues to fail in its efforts to reform, then it might be more compelled to do so with its financial solvency at stake. We are sincerely dismayed that UC members have become...
...Pointedly, the emergency evacuation makes no allowances for shelter for those who opt not to evacuate. City officials do not want a repeat of the hellish conditions at the Superdome and the Convention Center, where thousands of people sought shelter after Katrina. The images and tales of people stranded in the shelters without lights, air conditioning or adequate food and water supplies have lingered long after the storm. ?As I?ve stated before, there will be no shelter of last resort in the event of a major hurricane that?s coming our way,? Nagin said. ?The Convention Center will...
...mother’s actions are dismaying. In her 2005 book “Are Men Necessary?,” The New York Times sweetheart Maureen Dowd bemoans this apparent lack of commitment to the feminist cause among so many modern ladies. Increasingly, Dowd fears, women are willing to opt out of careers to be professional mommies, forgoing jobs for juice boxes. These mothers are blind to the tooth-and-nail fights of the generations before them—the fights to have jobs and to hold professional degrees. This recent trend, she implies, is a horror...