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...come to a halt on a tight slip road in the congested Lajpat Nagar area in the southern part of India's capital, but drivers are resignedly restraining their impatience. That's because the obstacle holding up the traffic is a wedding procession, and to protest would be rude. At the head of the procession, the groom, dressed in glittering brocade and sporting a ceremonial sword, nervously tries to mount a white mare. He succeeds on the third attempt, much to his own relief and to cheers from his entourage. A band begins to play Bollywood hits and everyone breaks...
Many members of the Class of 2010 who had for months carefully considered their choice of concentration were in for a rude surprise last week when they sought out the final signatures necessary to declare their concentration. Just days before the deadline to file a plan of study, the economics and psychology departments announced that they were suddenly no longer allowing joint concentrations in their departments. The timing of this announcement could not have been much worse, as it forced prospective joint-concentrators in these two fields into rushed decisions and saw them scraping to correct their plans of study...
...dirty underwear for the third day in a row, or starting a dryer cycle you know conflicts with a Gov tutorial, hopefully you choose the latter. But leaving laundry to deflate all afternoon while you enjoy a “quick” study break at Boloco is just rude. Laundry room transgressions happen anonymously. But just because there’s no face attached to the clothing you soil, that doesn’t make its owner any less real—nor any less angry. Maybe you’ve sat next to that pair of pants...
...event, Project East believes that the benefits of scholarships given to young children working in sweatshops by the Confucius Foundation far outweighs the problems facing those who “overspend” in East Asia. Charity is a central part of Project East and it is rude at best to trivialize this aspect...
...palpable. While the exit polls were encouraging and the swing to Labor was on, not enough seats were changing hands in the country's populous southeast. On the monitors, former leader Kim Beazley looms, warning that the result had better not hinge on the late-voting Western Australia, where rude prosperity was helping the government. In the flesh, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh sounds grim about her own state, where only two seats are classed as Coalition marginals. "It's a huge ask of Queensland," she says. "We're still in nailbiting territory...