Word: rigeur
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Rising each morning for practice before the sun comes up and taking a mid-morning recovery nap while the rest of us are still hitting the snooze button is de rigeur for this carbohydrate-fueled dynamo. Her notes are impeccably organized, her sourcebook is marked up in three different sets of highlighter and her outfits rarely deviate from the sweatpants and Crimson Crazies combo accesorized with a bottle of Smart Water. Out and about on the weekend, she’s wearing Abercrombie jeans in a cross-hatch wash, a black tank in slinky jersey and a little too much...
...student activist moved to Germany and became a philosopher and sociology professor, whose books and newspaper columns full of sympathetic accounts of North Korea's leaders were de rigeur reading on South Korean college campuses. Two National Intelligence chiefs and a Unification Minister have claimed in national-assembly hearings that Song went further: that he became the 23rd-ranked official in the North Korean Communist Party, under the name Kim Chul Su. Defector Hwang Jang Yop, former mentor to current North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, wrote in a 1998 book that he instructed Song in North Korea's radical...
Some point out that single-application policies are de rigeur at other early action schools. But far more common are binding early decision programs, which Harvard has always shunned, and rightly so. What the admissions office apparently does not understand is that Harvard isn’t great because it follows the crowd. Harvard is great because of its unique quirks: its commitment to an accessible and liberal early admissions policy used to be one of them. Changes like this work actively to undermine Harvard’s position as a leader in sensible admissions policy, pitching us back...
...many unfashionable tastes. She loved her years as a stay-at-home mom, in an era when feminist, have-it-all ideals reigned. She adores romance novels, though many women read them only with the curtains drawn. She is addicted to junk food, never mind that tofu is de rigeur...
...items on that list were fresh in the early '90s, when U2 mixed rock with techno sounds on their "Achtung Baby" album, and The Beastie Boys interspersed DJ scratches and rapping with heavy guitars on their hit song "Sabotage." By the turn of the century, both tricks were de rigeur among hard rock bands (to say nothing of the industrial bands that had been mixing synthesizers and samples with metal riffs since the Enlightenment). Only Phish would dispute that odd time signatures ceased to be fresh at some point during a King Crimson concert...