Word: sic
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...culturally desperate perhaps—as the presented models. But even these failings suggest an aspiration for refinement, something that cannot be said for the barnyard article on sexual lubricants. “KY Jelly is to sex as grape jelly is to gourmet…Even cheep [sic] porn directors know that the only thing grocery store lubricant is good for is use as fake tears in dramatic scenes,” reports Alexandra Cecilia Palma ’08. What charm, what grace...
...Russian ending,” and “pop the cork” were also offered to Cherubino. The report describes “Russian ending” as “when you have a satisfactory ending of the session between the women [sic] breast.” The CPD report stated that “pop the cork” meant “anal.” An officer from the Somerville Police Department received similar treatment when he went undercover to the salon. If convicted, Purdy’s four charges carry a maximum sentence...
Phillips’ diary details the scandalous Club festivities. At a hotel party at the Wayside Inn in Wayland, the girls made a “mild up-roar” in the dance-hall, and “next came a moonlight orgie [sic]. It was a wonderful night—full moon. Shadow tag and cross tag were followed by a grand walk-run-hop-skip-and jump expedition up the road to the accompaniment of our lustiest lung power...
...that they’re being complicit in unsavory ways. A brochure which Cisco handed out at a 2002 trade conference in China advertises particular products as ideal for such uses as “police routine community surveillance” and “preventative control and increse [sic] social stability.” Should we be okay with this sort of marketing? One wonders whether regulating, taxing, or otherwise using the force of government to impede Cisco’s participation in these schemes would have any impact on the ultimate outcome—Cisco might just move...
Last December, Senator Minority Leader Harry Reid, commenting on the possibility of Antonin Scalia becoming the Chief Justice, said, “I disagree with many of the results that he arrives at, but his reason for arriving at those results are [sic] very hard to dispute.” Amen. The staff editorial is based not on considerations of jurisprudence but on naked political considerations, and, given his impressive credentials and capabilities, we wish Alito a quick confirmation...