Word: rabid
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...game on the ice, things got out of hand on the sidelines as well, a scene that probably hasn't occurred since Harvard's incredible stretch run during the late 1980s and early 1990s. A skirmish ensued on the visitor's side of the rink between a group of rabid fans. Chants of "H.U.P.D." thundered from the student section, as the men in blue restored peace and order to the stands...
This might not seem like a big deal. After all, jeering is a part of many sports, professional and collegiate. The notoriously rowdy bleachers at Fenway Park come to mind as an obvious example. College hockey fans at Boston College and Boston University are 10 times as rabid...
Culturally, the business school actively discourages social leadership. Professors seem to have no compunction being prescriptive about behavior when it comes to the tenets of rabid profit-seeking. Last term, one professor stated to the class that "Our jobs in life are to increase society's wealth--we have to work on enlarging the pie. Enlarging the pie is what makes charity possible. If we didn't do this, there would be no such thing as charity!" Frantically scribbling notes, several students took as gospel this Word of the Professor--not realizing that there is perhaps a valid and opposing...
...Clinton hasn't murdered anyone (although his most rabid enemies say he's not even past that), but like O.J., his very presence makes us all a little bit uncomfortable. We just wish he'd stay offstage. The Marc Rich pardon has been a moral tipping point for Clinton. Even those who have always defended him have become suddenly silent. His own Al Cowlings, Bill Daley, the former commerce secretary, criticized Clinton on the front page of today's New York times...
...will take a lot of planning to stick with the Origin Diet. My guess is that some of the more rabid ancient-diet advocates wouldn't consider it a true paleolithic prescription. But I think Somer has the right idea. Just be glad you don't have to hunt down a woolly mammoth for dinner...