Word: quos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Frustration bubbles barely beneath the campus surface. Students don't usually raise the issue publicly, but in conversations with female friends, the non-existent social and dating scenes are recurrent themes. Women are not satisfied with the status quo, which is sans dating to the umpteenth...
...this point, my male readers might be grumbling and curling their hands into clenched fists. I hear you. Harvard's men are clearly not thrilled with the status quo either. The proof of the pudding is Kirkland House's famous Secret Santa ritual. It was overwhelming to note that while the women requested flowers, candle lit dinners and slow dances, just how many of the House's male residents listed massages from beautiful women among their fantasies...
...There's all kinds of research which shows that peer review and secret meetings and very unique procedures tend to maintain the status quo," she says...
...Gore can get on with the business of applying this practice-makes-perfect credo to running for President. It's a task that, even in this era of permanent campaigns, might seem premature for a Vice President, except that it has become the organizing principle of Clinton's status quo second term. Clinton's legacy is now predicated on electing Gore ("It's going to take another presidential election to set these ideas in cement," Clinton has told friends), which is why Gore's electability has become an issue so early in the game...
Some people I have spoken to have justified the status quo by arguing that Christmas trees have little to do with Christmas or Christians, which, given the linguistic parallels, seems a logically indefensible claim Christmas trees are tied directly to Christmas--Christmas tree lots on the day after Christmas are forlorn places, and I've never seen Christmas trees pop up in living rooms in the middle of April, both of which indicate the obvious: that Christmas trees are symbols for Christmas, a Christian holiday...