Word: remarkable
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...suit, M. Delise Battenfield accuses the research advisor to master's degree candidates, Donald Ostrowski, of sexual harassment for a remark at a meeting...
Battenfield, a former master's candidate who also worked as an assistant in the master's program office, alleges that the remark constitutes harassment because Ostrowski kissed her on three prior occasions...
...kisses allegedly occurred in 1988, but Battenfield did not bring them to the attention of Extension School officials until another 1991 remark...
...sure, underneath the sartorially chic and smug exterior was a Ph.D. in English (from Cambridge University) who completely failed to read the sad irony of his own brand name-bantering remark. Apparently in the world according to Gates, legitimacy is to be had only by positioning oneself behind established labels: the Latin Quarter, Burberry, Paul Stewart, Porsche, Cambridge, now Harvard, the list goes...
...Whole New Life, Price recalls three such deaths and adds that when the cancer first hit him, he was widely rumored to be dying of AIDS too. That remark and a couple of faintly homoerotic images in some poems at the end of the volume are the closest he comes to addressing his sexuality. Price is adamant on the importance of reticence: "There are writers who have a need for the explicit and confrontational. When I read John Updike describing sex, it just makes me uncomfortable. I would think that anyone who has seriously read my work could come...