Word: perturb
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Anusha, Farha, Pooja—I have mistakenly been called the name of various other freshman South Asian females since I arrived at Harvard two months ago. This doesn’t particularly perturb me, but it often bothers whoever is addressing me. Usually their horrified response plays out along the lines of an apology: “I’m so sorry; I’m not a racist, I swear!” This does perturb...
This not to suggest, by any means, that the Core is perfect, or in no need of improvement. Indeed, illogical and unfounded complaints about the Core regarding its ostensible “lack of offerings” and “watered down” nature doubly perturb me because they obscure the many more legitimate, real issues that the Core committee should be thinking about. These include such things as having more departmental courses count for Core credit, and slightly lowering the extent of Core requirements (which has been the subject of recent meeting of the Committee of Undergraduate...
...Hamdullah, an anti-Taliban militiaman was woken at 2am for his shift on guard duty that day. Around him all was still, the compound asleep. Helicopters buzzed overhead, but that didn't much perturb the sentry - their sound had filled Uruzgan's night sky for the past two weeks. Then came an explosion, "not like any that I have heard before, not a rocket or a grenade", he says. He could make out only a strange vehicle, and a dot of red light that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. He rushed back to alert the others, before diving...