Word: properity
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...series of books, dolls, and doll accessories, my mother informed me that I could pick one American Girl doll I wanted for Hanukah. Elated and overwhelmed, I ravaged through the catalogue without leaving a single page unturned. The problem was that while I wanted Samantha (because she was prim, proper, drank tea and ate crumpets, and was of course beautiful), I wanted all of the accessories of Molly (um, a wooden desk, a brown lunch bag with a sandwich and apple, and a few composition books and pencils). Already, my internal conflict was stirring within...
...moments later, before dropping into a baritone so deep I thought it was James Earl Jones. "Farina, Stymie and I only spoke that way in the movies because white people wrote the scripts," Buckwheat explained. "Our parents and teachers would never let us get away with speaking anything but proper English when we weren't working. The Kingfish usually speaks properly too, but he's hoping that since Black English is back in vogue, he can make a comeback...
...fashioned free broadcast TV? A good set-top antenna can boost your reception. And to cut your telephone costs down to zero, use online tools such as Google Talk or Skype, which let you place free calls from your computer (if whomever you are calling has the proper software). As for Web access, check for free wi-fi in your neighborhood before you pay a lot to go online...
...Joseph’s University Assistant Professor Maria Kefalas of committing “conceptual plagiarism” in their 2005 book “Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Choose Motherhood Over Marriage.” Bershady claimed that the two scholars had taken ideas without proper acknowledgement from works by Penn’s Day Professor of Social Sciences Elijah Anderson.Bershady circulated the allegations even though he was aware that Anderson and Edin had already resolved their differences over “Promises,” according to a statement by Paul D. Allison, the chair...
Police arrested a 22-year-old undergraduate outside Pforzheimer House Wednesday evening after he reportedly failed to show proper student identification and cursed at and physically fought off police officers, witnesses said yesterday.Uchenna Aguoji ’05-’06 was escorted out of the House’s Jordan Hall in handcuffs and charged with trespassing, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD). “We received a call from a tutor who had confronted Mr. Aguoji and asked why he was in the building...