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...sham, and I don't want to forget it. For most of my four years, the grass has been brown and my shower curtain has been covered with scum. I have memories of this place, some good and many bad; I want to keep them all. When I'm riding a special bus to a reunion Boston Pops concert, I want to remember the days I trudged through snow or rain because the shuttle service is insufficient. When I'm eating at the Union again, I hope I'll think about the 11 days Harvard kept me from my diploma...
...Church, not Mem Hall), he might have found the arguments presented for the divestiture a good deal more sophisticated than mere "name-calling." Saying that "many of the students who support divestiture compare President Bok and the Corporation members to "rednecks and Klansmen" and "racist nightriding scum" is a bold-faced lie, insupportable by all forms of evidence...
...point here also isn't that everyone who believes Harvard must divest thinks the President and Fellows of Harvard College are racist nightriding scum. Indeed, the vast majority of the marchers in front of Mem Hall were likely very embarassed by what one historical revisionist had to say about what President Bok would have done had he been President Andrew Johnson...
...write with a lot of exclamation points and use inflammatory phrases. I am an aspiring journalist, so this style of writing seems distasteful. Talking with one as he tried to sell me Young Spatacus, for example, I had to point out that the phrase "white-hooded Ku Klux Klan scum" was too strong a tone to take; it was also redundant...
...spent most of his life cheating on his employers on his wife on the IRS. But by the time his family discovers his crimes, he is saved from punishment by his comatose state. At first, wife Lily refuses to believe that her husband of thirty years is such a scum. When she can no longer escape the awful truth, she moans. "All I have left is a corpse that betrayed me." Daughter Marshal takes aim at her mother with Freud and fires accusations of resistance represscion and denial. Then the two plot Daddy's death, considering all the options...