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...Having a 4.68 GPA? Scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT? Well, I guess that's pretty meritorious, I have to admit it. But, no, wait a minute. What is "merit" really? Could "merit" possibly be one of those terms your TF would applaud you for labeling--yikes, I shudder and clench my teeth to use the faddish descriptor--"socially-constructed...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: Redefining Merit | 4/7/1998 | See Source »

...guaranteed them. They're nice singles, too: the rooms in Quad houses range from decent to luxurious, and even the smallest is comparatively spacious. None of your tiny, dingy sophomore quarters or "walk-through" rooms here. (I still remember a Dunster friend's sophomore-year room with a shudder: it was smaller than my closet...

Author: By Lynn Y. Lee, | Title: Debunking the Myth | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

...that proposes, "You now find it completely plausible that [Willey] herself smeared her lipstick, untucked her blouse, etc." If Kenneth Starr is able to determine that this stage direction was an inducement to perjury on the President's behalf, Clinton too could come to recall November 1993 with a shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Sparking The Scandal | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...BULLS Neither Alan Greenspan nor an October shudder halted momentum. And Michael Jordan's team also did well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 29, 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Here's how they work: small motors inside the base of the sticks send jolts and vibrations to the handle in synch with the action onscreen--from the bumpy roads in Activision's Interstate '76 to the shudder of a quarterback sack in ABC's Monday Night Football...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techwatch: Oct. 20, 1997 | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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