Word: refraining
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It’s that time of year again. Starbucks is overflowing with irritating holiday cheer, the first round of midterms is over, and the refrain “Why didn’t I go to Stanford?” echoes louder in my head with each degree of wind chill. November is a grim month in Cambridge. Luckily, Harvard has developed an annual tradition to lessen my loathing for this frigid climate and the never-ending mountain of work. Yes, The Game will take place this weekend, that one instance where my classmates and I will unite...
...chanticleers of self-righteous indignation sound their call—nearly 900 hundred tiresome words long—to action. “Divest from Sudan!” or, more recently, “from Burma too!” the choruses one after another, in perpetual refrain, raise, striking so high a pitch that few politically-sensitive observers withhold their applause. But this tired routine cannot—and should not—remain above reproach. This bleeding-heart activism is not mere well-intentioned, innocuous idealism, but potentially a cause of harm—not, thankfully...
...latest video from inscrutably-named indie-dance combo !!! is for the song “Yadnus,” an unearthly blues-funk groove with nonsensical lyrics, a relentless beat, a wailing refrain, and a guitar attack so furious it threatens to tear the song apart. The video opens with white-lipped, disembodied singing mouths, framed between shots of roadkill that’s been strewn across the velvet-black surface of its natural habitat. As if viewers weren’t visually stimulated enough, the director guides the audience to random shots...
...lose the support of the communists, because their departure from his coalition would have forced snap elections 18 months early. If he had been counting on convincing the Left to drop its opposition to the deal at the eleventh hour, he has badly miscalculated. Communist demands that the government refrain from negotiating nuclear safeguards with the IAEA - the next phase of implementing the deal - have prevailed, and it is the government that appears to have been forced to back down at the eleventh hour...
...because since the UC was created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, it is presumably also subject to its rules. That being said, the Faculty legislation that originally created the UC mandated that it would be a self-governing body. We believe, therefore, that the College should refrain from meddling in UC affairs unless University policy or the law is expressly violated. Funding of underage drinking may or may not warrant such intervention—the Office of General Counsel and the administration seem to say different things here—and the lay of the legal land remains...