Word: qua
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...whatever happened to the lost art of existential crisis that used to be the sine qua non of college experience? I’m not advocating that we ultimately throw ourselves into the Charles River, like Quentin Compson in The Sound and the Fury. But surely it wouldn’t hurt to skip class once in awhile, go boating with dapper northern bluebloods, play with our father’s watch and indulge in jumbled metaphysical speculations about the nature of time. The incest part might have been a little weird. But Faulkner, like other writers, had a point...
...like “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever,” it’s that audiences will watch any male-female relationship unfold as long as it features an attractive, charismatic couple, once turned against itself with explosions-qua-flirtation, uniting in the end to defeat an apocalyptic common enemy. Even if the Clinton/Obama ‘dream ticket’ is nothing more than a pundit’s daydream, it might seem far more reasonable if the Chinese introduced lethal nanorobots into American bloodstreams—just...
...composure, but the attention overwhelmed them a little. "A couple of times, Paige tried to run away," says Tania Cowher, one of the paparazzi on the scene that night in the Texas capital, "so we ran along with her." They chased the couple all the way to the nightclub Qua, where Vaz and Hill were met by a crowd of adoring fans...
...move to “the City” next year, reduced to periodic contact by email and Facebook, provided the bandwidth in the Great White North holds up. New York doesn’t just loom large in the consciousness of the upwardly mobile; it is the sine qua non of their hopes and dreams.For those of us who aspire to success but not to American citizenship, falling out of step in the march to Midtown is frightening. Overriding the hardwiring of a Harvard education and ignoring the standing orders to bank, consult, and dream of season tickets...
...followed by the first three letters of their starting point and their destination. In seconds, they’ll receive a text detailing the next few shuttles they can catch. For example, a Quad resident looking to get to Mather House would message “sboy qua mat” to find out the time of the next shuttle’s arrival. David J. Malan ’99, the lecturer who currently leads Computer Science 50, originally developed Shuttleboy while an undergraduate at Harvard, decided to expand the service to text messaging. “As times...