Word: punching
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...reality, Suskind reports, he actually was merely a low-level al-Qaeda drone, "like the guy you call who handles the company health plan." A CIA official told Suskind that Zubaydah was like "Joe Louis in the lobby of Caesar's Palace, shaking hands," after the fighter was punch drunk and well past his prime. Nonetheless, Bush characterized him as "one of the top operatives plotting and planning death and destruction on the United States...
...speaking style has a lot more street cred than Brown's. Blair himself is the product of an Edinburgh school, Fettes, that is often called the Scottish Eton. A lot of institutions that used to symbolize and perpetuate inequality in Britain seem to have lost their toxic punch; the royal family, for example, has never been more popular. What about Eton? What lessons is it imparting today, to what kind of boy? Is it manufacturing smug toffs, or are its students being equipped to make an honest living in a more classless, complex world? A visitor to the school...
...Harvard’s student groups. From the archives, we learned that social club members benefit from their alumni network both in terms of job opportunities and donations. We learned that club members sometimes like to drink alcohol. (Scandal!) And we learned that the club’s punch process, during which new members are chosen, relies less on any nebulous measurement of “merit” and more on the social adeptness of prospective members. In short, the archives confirmed everything that everyone already knew about Harvard’s social clubs. If anything, I was impressed...
...club’s e-mail archives were different simply because they were guaranteed to pique the interest of your average Harvard student. They were interesting for the same reason that paparazzi salivate about pictures of Brangelina’s new baby. By diligently cultivating their exclusivity through closed punch processes and the maintenance of close ties only with other closed social clubs, Harvard’s social clubs—male and female—make themselves targets of intense scrutiny...
...about previous social club leaks to put the incident in context. Published along with excerpts from the e-mails, the article was certainly guilty of “making” the news. Its structure implied value judgments (at least by my ken) about the club’s punch process and its members’ lifestyles. And its ending quote made the club’s punchmaster look stupid for posting the punch book online and for failing to password-protect the e-mail archives. Nowhere in the article was there any coverage of the campus’ reaction...