Word: respecter
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...parasite: it lives in the petri dish of the social-networking sphere and feeds off your attention. Try to quit, and it begs and bribes you to fall off the wagon again. It's just a game, but it's like the real mafia in that one respect: just when you think you're out, it pulls you right back...
...details with us that the movie only hints at). On the page, we as readers can pretty Precious up, pretend we wouldn't ignore or judge her if she passed us on the street. But Daniels and Sidibe give us a Precious we can't deny, who earns our respect even more than our pity. Dignity is her victory...
...kind of game that we anticipated—hard-fought,” Bagnoli said. “We had to play for 60 minutes against a program that we have the ultimate respect for—with the job that Harvard has done, in terms of their consistency over the last five years...
...pluses were the “white whale” of the grading system, achievable only through a seemingly untraceable elixir of grinding work, teacher-schmoozing ability, and luck. At Harvard, an A—our highest grade—doesn’t yield that degree of respect, probably because there is a perception that we achieve quite a lot of them: In 2007, over half of Harvard grades were As or A-minuses, as reported by former Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross...
...heart and passion,” said Matthew G. Yung ’13, as he passed by a campaign rally outside the Science Center. “In terms of substance—well, it’s the UC. [But] if you have heart, you have my respect...