Word: perk
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...this day, the ears of Molly M. Simmons ’05 perk up whenever the Naval Academy is mentioned. In June of her senior year, Simmons was all set to enlist. The papers were signed and the Academy had a spot reserved for her. For Simmons, whose father and two sisters are all Harvard alumni, it would have been a huge departure from family tradition. At the last minute—two weeks before she was scheduled to leave for Annapolis—Simmons changed her mind, trading in her regulation blues for bright crimson...
...trim figures, smartly enduring and inventing indignities, these characters are a new breed of Palestinian: cool. (When a fire bomb is lobbed into his driveway, a man blithely turns on a fire extinguisher, as if terrorists were familiar household pests.) They also have an underdog appeal. That's one perk of being on the weaker side: you get to make jokes about the mighty. Short of a suicide bomb, what power have they...
...even Dunay’s game face can’t stick forever. Sometimes, the first-year, who says he “tries to be calculating,” will let slip what cards are in his hand. The corners of his lips perk into a smile, and he becomes sheepish as he speaks like the politician he knows he is. “A politician tries to give as little information as possible and tries to appeal to everyone without upsetting anyone,” he says. “That probably relates...
...corporate perk sacred? In the struggling economy, sports teams are being blitzed by bean counters taking aim at luxury boxes and club seats. These premium-priced perches are a standard feature in every new stadium and cash machines for teams--they don't have to share the revenues with the rest of the league...
...perhaps the biggest freshman year perk: Bartch describes the rooming talk with her Weld roommates. “We were picking rooms and I was like ‘by the way, I wake up at five in the morning a couple times a week.’ No one wants to share with me. It worked out really well.” While she’s not completely sure about the future, she is certainly enthusiastic about the present. She couldn’t really imagine college any other way. “A lot of military kids...