Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nullification of the Undergraduate Council's proposed term-bill hike has placed the struggling student organization at yet another crucial juncture. with fewer than 100 students voting on the bill-far short of the minimum number required for a referendum to be binding-the council must now decide how and if to re-address the issue. Some have proposed waiting until next year's general elections. However, we urge council members to make the term-bill crease a top priority, preferably bringing a well-publicized referendum to a student vote before the end of this academic term...
...Manhattan sidewalk for five hours in the freezing rain and have accomplished absolutely nothing. If Aaron and Josh are turned away, our entire odyssey will be for naught. Our bouts of pneumonia--which we already feel coming on--will be in the name of no higher cause. In short, we will have to return to Harvard, cold, wet and beaten...
...first stop is makeup. A short funky British woman lunges at my face with a powder brush. I instinctively recoil in horror. I don't like to share cosmetic products. I try to protest that my natural complexion is so smooth and vibrant that I don't need makeup. Spice Girl will have none of it and proceeds to plaster my countenance with blush and bacteria...
...damn!" A as in, "Are you kidding?" N as in, "No way!" E as in, "Everyone must have a hard time remembering that." S as in, "Seriously?" H as in, "Hell no--I'm calling you by your first name." "Ganesh" is actually the short form of my last name. After the first grade, when I used the short version to make things easier for everyone else--I could handle the whole thing just fine, I figured--I grew angry and thought, "Why should I make things easy for anyone? It's my name and if you can't handle...
...short, the bill is homophobic. A council that endorses homophobic legislation is a homophobic council. A homophobic council cannot claim to represent Harvard's LGBT community or the scores of students on this campus who thankfully take non-discrimination a lot more seriously than their "elected" leaders...