Word: skipping
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...against the law, has deterred some from going home to celebrate with their families. In many classes, such as Sociology 67, lecture videos are unavailable, despite ample resources to fix this problem. We understand some professors’ aversion to putting lecture videos online to avoid tempting students to skip class, but we hardly think that taping the few lectures that fall on religious holidays constitute an “unreasonable burden” on Harvard or the professor in question. Nor should moving an examination or providing a makeup. We do not dispute that the onus should...
...showed up for the job: Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) and Quentin Tarantino (Kill Bill), plus a few other cult directors to provide zesty trailers of fake horror films. Rodriguez's Planet Terror is a zombie thriller with some bloody fabulous effects; it's fast, icky and smart. You can skip the second feature: Tarantino's Death Proof, above center, offers an hour of gaseous girl talk and an inane car chase. More than the autos get totaled here; so does Q.T.'s reputation as cinema's fanboy-genius...
...should never hurry a driver. You should leave timings to God." When I replied that God and I had different deadlines, and that anyway I wasn't a believer, that only confirmed Bishaq's low opinion of me. After that, my every request to speed up or please, please skip just one meal was met by his invoking my "godlessness...
...They taped our lines onto the basketball court,” men’s volleyball co-captain Dave Fitz said. “It’s perfect: looks great, looks like it was almost painted. We didn’t really skip a beat...
...president in the liberal-arts sub-30 neighborhood - Drew this year is tied for 69th - has said higher-ups need to jump ship first. But even the ?lites are worried about taking the plunge. In recent years, a top-ranked school got a new president who wanted to skip the survey. "I was told we would drop 10 points and no one would know why," says the head honcho. "I'd have to be an idiot to do that...