Word: skips
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...happen to skip the exquisite kumquat cake for dessert (we didn't), just a few blocks away at 15 Youngkang Street is Bing Guan (The Ice House), a small stand that has become a Taipei institution serving shaved ice covered in fruit and cream. Because the line curls around the corner, Xiao Gugu has us hover over a table while she queues up to get the special of the day: flaming red strawberries sliced over thick cream on a bed of finely ground ice. A simple delight no one should miss...
...Hahvahd, don’t you?” it asks. Well, then “you’ve gotta have some kind of natural intellectual curiosity!” Read on, young man, but mind the parenthetical aside that you “can probably skip the part about gynecological exams...
...makes me sick leaving for Harvard for the holidays knowing that as soon as I take off, the administration will engross themselves in a royally entertaining debacle. We weren’t gone long before Cornel "Wild Wild" West and Henry "Skip-Out" Gates got ready to dash away, dash away all to Princeton. And then, just as Summers was making up to the Af-Am Department under the mistletoe, the Katz Committee snuck in to keep things interesting until exams...
...horoscopes because I know they’re always wrong and horribly vague. They offer unsubstantiated non-advice and reiterate the obvious. Oh, and they’re based on astrology. But without a doubt, whenever my Pisces reading is stupid (about 80 percent of the time) I simply skip ahead to another that I like more (usually Sagittarius) and claim it as my own. Though I will have forgotten the advice by the time I get to the next article, ad, or embarrassing trauma-rama of the week, I still go through the ritual of reading them until...
...only half a day or so to explore Tokyo, skip the Imperial Palace and Tokyo Tower and head to the Tsukiji fish market--particularly if you're jet-lagged and wide-eyed at 5 a.m. By then, everything from sea urchins to whales to whole tunas the size of third-graders is being chopped and auctioned at the market. Expect to ruin your khakis as merchants splatter past through puddles of fish slop...