Word: rude
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Usually pampered with the privilege of guaranteed seats in capped Core classes, seniors received a rude awakening last week in the lottery for Literature and Arts B-11, “The Art of Film...
...year ago, some folks looked at their soaring portfolios and concluded they had enough money to retire--only to have to burrow back into work after the Internet bubble popped. Now another set of aspiring retirees, this one reveling in inflated home values, may be in for a similar rude awakening...
...Rude Awakening? Monday, September 4, 12:30 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to Grays Hall East to a report of an individual sleeping in the area. The officers arrived and spoke to the individual and a field interview was conducted. The individual was run for wants/warrants with negative results and sent on his/her way with a Trespass Warning for all of Harvard University Property. Drug Bust Monday, September 4, 5:56 p.m.: HUPD Officers observed two individuals acting suspiciously near the Malkin Athletic Center. As the officers were approaching the two individuals, the officers observed one of the individuals lighting...
...your most time-consuming. For reasons now lost to antiquity, you refer to your Expos section leader as a “preceptor.” Your preceptor occupies a rung on the staff ladder somewhere above TFs. They are the nomads of the academy. It is considered rude to ask them about their tenure status. The number of A-range grades is rumored to be capped across sections, so competition for grades can be intense. That said, grading is sometimes arbitrary, and naturally some preceptors are more gung-ho about their charge than others. If you take an Expos...
...Cohen's form of ambush comedy involves donning an assured and preposterously unknowing persona - the hip-hopeless Ali G., for example - then embarrassing real people by asking inane questions and making rude observations. A riff on the Michael Moore style of confrontation, it's a tactic I'm usually not crazy about, since anyone can seem a fool when he's not allowed in on the joke. As Moore once made me uneasily sympathetic to (or feel pity for) General Motors chairman Roger Smith, so Ali G. nudged me to the side of the politicians and aged authors who were...