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...Poem of J” is placed between “Motet for Mom” and the elegiac triptych. The narrator remembers her past with the titular “J”—the things that made her angry, things that now seem petty??during an impromptu phone call after many years apart. In “Steps,” a changing relationship “dismembers [the narrator’s] life.” For the poet, losing someone is just that—even when they’re still...
...Republican blogger “Airborne Combat Engineer” called Kerry’s professional nail nippings indicative of something “petty?? and “Poodle-like” about his character...
So…I suppose our secretly effete president is now “petty?? and “Poodle-like” as well. And I’m sure, having read my world exclusive report, Rush Limbaugh and the National Review will now attack George Bush with the same ferocity, the same glee, with which they trained their fire on John Kerry. But in the unlikely event that the right-wing intelligentsia somehow neglect to question Bush’s hetero-manliness the way they quite blatantly questioned Kerry’s, let?...
First of all, I am personally insulted that the authors would call the current bathroom situtation, with respect to transgendered individuals, a ‘petty?? issue. Is verbal and physical abuse a ‘petty?? concern? What about being arrested for entering the ‘wrong’ bathroom? Granted, I know of no Harvard-specific examples of transgendered individuals (or any other individuals, for that matter) being arrested for entering the bathroom of the ‘wrong’ gender, but there are certainly incidences of this...
Whereas Horan accepts that she isn’t good at “networking” and “self-promotion”—skills essential to landing a job—Peter more pointedly blames the “petty?? and “competitive” student body whose talents make him less marketable. He feels that many of his supposed friends have buttressed their self-esteem through his failure...