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Harvard students will get a chance to rub elbows with Nobel laureates and the U.S. Surgeon General-elect on Saturday at the first even student caucus of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS...
...average happy noun ('problem'), and disfiguring it with a meaningless suffix. Take a few more such words; apply prefixes at will; stir boldly for a decade; before long, an entire generation will have on its tongues an assortment of unaesthetic and utterly meaningless words. And there, comrades, lies the rub. Their complete uselessness means everyone will use them--simply for want of a more precise descriptive term. You'll thematize your timetable, your phone directory will be positively intertextual, and, my lord, is that a bird I see or have I got decentered subjectivity...
This is not a massage parlor. This is a university. If you want to feel good at the end of a class, go get a rub down. If you want to think, you have to sweat and squirm and be made very uncomfortable in class...
...Keene remains skeptical that their case will ever be won, saying the State Department has done "everything short of having the CIA come and rub...
Clinton has sought few improvements in the industry's working conditions, while at the same time showering the largest chicken producer, Tyson Foods, with millions of dollars in tax breaks for expanding its plants and work force. It is a cozy relationship in a state where the powerful often rub elbows. Tyson has provided free airplane rides for the Governor and his wife, for both personal and business trips, and the company's chairman, Don Tyson, is a major contributor to Clinton's presidential bid. Tyson's general counsel, James Blair, is married to one of Clinton's top campaign...