Word: oxymoronality
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...squad of 19 the title of “Grand Champions.” But the cheerleading team’s path to victory has not been a flawless one. The team acknowledges that for many, the term “Harvard cheerleader” is the ultimate oxymoron. Cheerleader Cassie E. Snow ’10 describes spectators’ reactions as, “Oh my god, Harvard has a cheerleading squad?! Oh my God, they have a GOOD cheerleading squad!” Besides general stereotypes and biases working against them, the cheerleading squad also...
Thaler and Sunstein, longtime colleagues and friends, dub this "libertarian paternalism." The deliberate oxymoron is meant to exalt individual freedom (the authors use their system to explain how one might structure school vouchers or privatize Social Security) while protecting people from cognitive and social forces that lead them to decisions that even they would describe as poor. We are all like houseguests who eat from a bowl of cashews, then thank our host for removing the nuts so that we don't spoil our dinner...
Kosher sausage—an oxymoron? Think again. Hillel hosted “Kosher Sex: The Game Show” in Adams Lower Common Room (LCR) on Monday as part of the week’s Jewbilation festivities. Done in Jeopardy-fashion, the trivia game tapped into potentially touchy areas, including the category “I ‘Know’ You Biblical Relations.” “We really thought it was important to have an event like this because Judaism has a lot to say about these issues,” says contestant...
Paid volunteer work--an oxymoron for the ages--is increasingly the norm. Maxworthy takes a $2,000-a-month salary from his operation to make ends meet. It was that, or keep his old job--and last year alone his organization says the program touched 3 million lives. "So many people think if they don't have an enormous sum of money to leave to a philanthropic group, they can't leave an important legacy," says Marc Freedman, CEO of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit that promotes active aging. "But the way we use our experience--something we all have...
...uninsured? The only noncallous answer is no. The problem with the individual market, as anyone with the most innocuous ailments can attest, is that profit-seeking insurers want to cover only younger, healthier people who don't need insurance. The very idea of individual insurance is an oxymoron, since insurance is about spreading risks across a group. Group coverage creates little socialized-health republics in which the young subsidize the old, and the healthy the unwell, with all those in the group paying the same premiums...