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...Mira F. Leonard ’04, giddy and disturbingly honest the day after she pulled an all-nighter, was telling anecdotes about her collection of Beanie Babies when a friend pointed out that Beanie Babies were a pretty recent phenomenon. “Hey, they really helped me during the SATs,” she said defensively. The stunned silence of her friends prompted an explanation: “They were a good luck charm! I lined them around my desk!” Leonard’s friends have stopped returning her calls...
With the term self-conscious I do not mean to evoke images of insecure adolescence but rather an entirely more forceful breed of the phenomenon. Where the self-consciousness of middle school was tentative and hesitant, the self-consciousness of Harvard is forceful and confident. It is defined by an increased level of self-awareness and a heightened desire to bring our precision-ground sense of individuality to bear on the world...
...other organizations have accused local officials of misappropriating 40% of the city's flood-prevention funds and issuing building permits in violation of zoning regulations. "Unlike earthquakes and hurricanes, water can be managed if the proper steps are taken," says Nursjabani. "It's not like this is a new phenomenon...
...Loury’s most useful contributions in this book is his identification of the practice of racial discrimination as another red herring in the discourse on race. He contrasts racial discrimination—treating people unequally because of their race—with a phenomenon he defines and presents as more important: “racial stigma...
...album, and that’s it. Over 40 minutes long and divided into eight sections, it includes an overture with a full orchestra. “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” is an intense musical experience of the typical Dream Theater variety that deals with the phenomenon of inner anguish and turmoil in today’s seemingly content youth...