Word: picket
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...according to multiple witnesses. The two Kirkland residents who were inside the library when the accident occurred, Jason M. Scherer ’08 and David A. Sherman ’08, also avoided injury. The vehicle, a gray Mazda 3 with Massachusetts license plates, plowed through a white picket fence and clipped the corner of the building, coming to a stop partially wedged in the wall and nestled in the adjacent shrubbery. According to the owner of the car, Richard Palmer of Framingham, Mass., “the [valet] said the car kept accelerating.” Other than...
...Some NYU graduate assistants who wanted to keep working but who would not cross the strikers’ picket lines moved their classes off campus, creating a potential hassle for undergraduates...
...whenever you feel like it, this is your chance to study for exactly as much or as little as you want. On any given day, you can study for six hours, or you can do nothing. You can lie in bed, you can read a magazine, or you can picket in front of the Science Center to protest the newest issue on which you’ll have entirely reversed your viewpoint by the time you’re 30. But hey, I won’t see you there. Since the Science Center doesn’t fall somewhere...
...male in the U.S.A., not to mention for a huge number of closeted he-men, whose uber-masculine towel-smacking is a thin disguise for some serious locker-room fantasies. Likely, the Republicans will go crazy, homophobic hicks across America will charge up the repression engine, church groups will picket the screenings, and President Bush will think fondly of his favorite stable boys. “Something’s rotten in the State of Christian Morality”—This problem can be fixed easily with a good dose of heavy-handed allegory...
...some classes are now being held off-campus to avoid crossing the union’s picket lines...