Word: rip
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It’s an ultimate rite of passage. On the Thursday before spring break, blocking groups from Weld to Wigglesworth rip open their housing letters and sprint to Annenberg to celebrate or commiserate with their future Housemates. But for freshmen who end up “floating” in the lottery, the trip to the ’Berg is a solitary one. Though floating seems to be universally dreaded, FM tracked down several contented upperclassmen who flew solo. Tom E. Osborne ’08 went stag last year to avoid blocking drama...
...HRL’s poster campaign seek more mature ways to express their feelings—perhaps putting up posters of their own, or better yet, engaging in dialogue with each other and with HRL. Moreover, we hope authorities at the College take students and others who continue to rip down HRL’s posters to task, reprimanding them when they are caught and subjecting repeat offenders to more serious consequences...
...Rip Van Winkle had dozed off in the 1950s, he might not have felt completely out of place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party...
...middle of his meeting with department chairs last Wednesday, Derek C. Bok joked that he felt a bit like Rip van Winkle...
...THERE EVER TIMES IN THE OFF-SEASON WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS AND YOU THINK, "DAMN! I WISH WE COULD WRITE ABOUT THAT"? M.S. Last year it was the [Live 8] concert, and I was like, "Oh, man, I want to rip on them." And then there was when Tom Cruise was acting crazy. He just stayed crazy for so long--and it was still in the news--that we did a Tom Cruise show anyway...