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...there was the candidate for class president at Princeton accused of setting a squirrel on fire; the University of Pennsylvania grad student found to be commuting to class from prison; the Skull and Bonesman arrested for burning an American flag still attached to a New Haven home. For the sake of all the moms and dads reading this, we won’t even get into kitchen sex at Brown, testes flambé at Cornell, or one fine arts major’s vision of anal rosary beads—let’s just say our tipline stayed...
...sounding facial meaning. Such terms have blossomed into wide, unexamined usage at Harvard in our times, and my classmates can be thankful they are graduating from this realm of self-contradicting doublespeak: Where “dialogue” means the neutering of conversation for sensitivity’s sake, and where the premium placed on “inclusivity” forces students to trek to MIT if they wish to participate in ROTC...
...Brooks and Summers, though, both failed to point out the self-conscious anxiety of Cambridge’s organization kids. Students here know that they’re compelled to succeed for success’ sake. We’re flooded with prospects, whether it’s being an executive on The Crimson, chairing a student group, joining a final club, or leading a Phillips Brooks House Association program...
...Arkansas, went before the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition to denounce a controversial black rapper--and to prove he was not beholden to traditional Democratic interests. But Obama rejects that comparison. "I'm not interested in engaging in a bunch of Sister Souljah moments just for the sake of it," he says. "If I do that, it's not for effect but because it's what I really believe...
...CLOONEY: That couple-he goes out with Rachel McAdams ... BARKIN: Splitsville. Don't you read Us? CLOONEY: Well, those were two of the most talented young actors I've seen in a long time. They're not dead. BARKIN: And they should never have broken up-just for the sake of their careers...