Word: ritual
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...crossed in many places: Juárez, Tijuana, Tecate. It's sort of a ritual of humiliation. You get asked questions you don't know how to answer because they're ridiculous, like "Where do you come from?" I'm, like, "Are you serious? From Mexico. Where else...
...last few weeks, Harvard students have been engaging in an entrenched annual ritual of parading around in suits at all hours of the day and early morning. Final clubs’ punch season is over and most Wall Street-bound seniors already have their jobs, but eRecruiting is only just rolling to a close. For any blissfully ignorant freshmen or free spirited upperclassmen, eRecruiting is the online application system that the Office of Career Services (OCS) uses to match students up with internships in the business and finance worlds. The word “eRecruiting,” however...
...disregard for facts. Not one to spare pejorative words, he asks of the Radcliffe Institute, what do “these women” actually do for a living? He says that Drew Faust only writes about “gender” and “ritual.” Had he bothered to scroll down to the end of whatever Web site he was on, he might have found things more to his liking. For instance, he would have learned that one of Prof. Faust’s main works is on James Henry Hammond, a South Carolina...
...many countries, the publication of lists of ultra-rich citizens is an annual business ritual that stirs few emotions beyond pride and envy (depending on whether you made it onto the list or not). But in Vietnam, a communist country in the midst of a capitalist makeover, personal wealth remains a touchy subject. After online news site VNExpress recently produced the country's first-ever ranking of the 100 Richest People in Vietnam, several moguls complained. "I wish they would have asked us before publishing," groused Nguyen Duy Hung, CEO of a Ho Chi Minh City brokerage firm...
...Camp Pampernickel?” we kept asking him. “It’s going to be the best summer ever.” We made brochures. Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: To the person who stole my Indonesian ritual bat kite from Cabot storage: You are scum. Give it back. Favorite childhood toy: This outrageously large and unwieldy Nerf gun called the Razorbeast. It fired 15 suction-cup darts in two seconds. Sexiest physical trait: Fabulous muscles. Favorite part about Harvard: Chocolate milk at every meal. Describe yourself in three words: World?...