Word: remarkable
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Such an uncharitable remark may address the heart of what is happening as much as the disturbing health surveys that began to emerge early in this decade. There are those who say, "We are getting older and letting go, naturally"; there are others who declare, "Nonsense! We have turned our backs on the no-pain no-gain '80s -- our lack of will is making us, uh, pillowy." Just go with the age theorists for a moment: unless you are the issue of Mick Jagger out of Twiggy, you will soften, droop and bulge with the years, as muscle gradually turns...
...death left the White House staff wandering around glassy-eyed in disbelief, with those who knew him best searching their memories for the offhand remark, the telling anecdote that would illuminate what Foster kept hidden. Skip Rutherford, an aide to chief of staff Mack McLarty, recalls a conversation a week earlier when Foster said, "No one back in Little Rock could know how hard this is." Purvis remembers Foster's description of his days. "You try to be at work by 7 in the morning and sometimes it's 10 at night when you walk out just dog-tired. About...
...cleanliness of Harvard Square is not a brand-new issue. Harvard Corporation member Henry Rosovsky wrote of the "ever-changing urban squalor of Harvard Square" in his book The University: An Owner's Manual. At the time, some city leaders were upset at what they took as a disparaging remark. Now, however, they apparently agree
...still not sure how I feel about that remark. I think it's good to know someone still believes I'm a solid individual, despite my critical sportswriting. But, in the end, I'd rather they said. "That Jay's a real jerk, and I don't agree with anything he says. But some of the stuff he writes...I respect that he speaks his mind and says his opinions well...
Hackney allowed Robin Read, a Penn administrator at the school's Judicial Inquiry Office, to perpetuate a near witch-hunt--despite the fact that Penn professors and others in the community rushed to Jacobowitz's defense. Read determined herself that Jacobowitz's remark was a racial slur because water buffalo are black animals native to Africa; in fact, they are endemic to South Asia. Regardless, the last time we checked, the rule was "innocent until proven guilty." Then again, this isn't about the Constitution...