Word: roughness
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...humility are considered matters of style. Part of the myth is that professors didn’t like the president’s “style,” as though they objected mainly to his tailoring or as though fey humanists were not used to the rough and tumble argumentation supposedly standard among economists. But basic human virtues are not trivial things. Any corporate CEO who regularly breaches the social and moral demands of leadership will eventually lose the power to lead. Privacy in a search process is important, but not at the expense of due diligence. Corporations...
...named JT LeRoy existed; his publisher paid him, he gave book readings, and fans wrote letters to him. LeRoy told stories of his experiences as an abused child, running away from home, life as a lot lizard turning tricks with passing truck drivers, drug addiction, and HIV—rough, troubled authenticity. Then one day, poof, he disappears, leaving behind unsettling doubts—how much of our own reality depends on artificial, constructed truths?Our personal identity has been constructed for us. Immersed in media from the moment of birth, we’ve already seen every meaningful moment...
...that it’s unclear whether diversity benefits a university, and that Jewish students—unlike their black and female peers—perform better than their test scores indicate. But the Klitgaard Report, as it was popularly called, was prematurely released when The Crimson leaked a rough draft of the report, which was to be finished more than a year later.While Bok criticized The Crimson for releasing excerpts from the unfinished draft, leaders of minority groups criticized Bok for commissioning a report undermining affirmative action. Bok addressed the controversy in an open letter that spring, defending...
...against Harvard, the Tigers came back in remarkable fashion, with Noah Savage nailing a baseline jumper with under a second left to give Princeton a 60-59 win.“Back-to-back losses, losing in the last second like we did, it was kind of a rough way to go into the Penn game, which is what everyone was looking forward to,” said junior shooting guard Jim Goffredo. “It took the wind out of us, [and] it was tough for us to bounce back.” Harvard lost...
...After convincing my family that I really wanted to be a chef, I got to Paris and I hated it for the first two months. I was lonely; I had never been away from my family. It was rough, and school was rough. And the chefs were so hard on us. For an American girl who's used teachers that are nice to you, they were evil. They threw stuff at us - sauces, knives. It is a different mentality. They were treating us the way they were treated coming up, and they were letting us have it. Nobody can prepare...