Word: shock
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Almost a year after Joshua M. Elster, class of 2000, raped a fellow undergraduate, the shock of his actions may have faded from most of our minds. But for the woman he raped--and another undergraduate assaulted last spring by D. Drew Douglas, class of 2000--the nightmare continues, partially due to Harvard's apparent unwillingness to remove these students permanently from the rolls. Neither attacker has lost his official standing as a Harvard student. If attending Harvard is a privilege--and we think it is--these two men should have lost that privilege as soon as the Ad Board...
...gross domestic product, according to Hormats. "This private-sector deficit is enormous," he says. People feel flush enough, due to their soaring stock portfolios, to keep buying consumer goods on credit--the so-called "wealth effect." But a drop in the Dow Jones index or some other shock could quickly erase those paper gains and choke off the spending boom. So while the Clinton Administration is touting consumption-driven growth, Dresdner Bank's Ernst-Moritz Lipp is critical. "We shouldn't praise as an important development something that is due to an unsustainably low savings rate driven, in turn...
Might I somehow be in shock after hearing that Union defeated RPI, 4-3, in another ECAC quarterfinal game...
...Shock-to-the-System number one: after Ian Kennish and Brian Farrell both missed tough (but wide open) tip chances, it was Cornell's Jake Karam that got the game's first goal, off a clean two-on-one power play break into the Harvard zone...
...Best Female Stand-up, is lauded for her deadpan style of joke-telling. After talking for a moment about something, she delivers the one-line joke. The audience laughs. She delivers a shorter, sharper, even funnier line. The audience roars. She looks out at the crowd with surprise and shock, as if she's wondering how on earth that outrageous comment could have come from her mouth. And the audience loves...