Word: slacked
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...approach my boss with even a simple question is to be subjected to incredible rudeness, unmistakable signals that what I need to discuss just doesn't matter-at all. During such encounters, he sighs, loudly and often; gets a slack-jawed, glaze-eyed expression just 15 to 20 seconds into the conversation; makes sounds like "ughh, ughh" to seem engaged; and asks no questions, but inevitably lets you know the "meeting" is over by either picking up documents to read or turning completely around to read e-mails on his PC ... Ironic how such "micro" inequities have such a HUGE...
...dedicated Yard offices, then they will be happy. Maybe “they” will be. But the Harvard students whose common activities, shared academic interests, and co-mingled life goals matter more to them than their races, creeds, and sexual orientations will outnumber them 100 to one.Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
Finally: Doordropped sadly reports that we were unable to reach anyone at Current Magazine, the Newsweek-affiliated, Harvard-run magazine for “real” students. Good thing Scene is around to pick up the slack...
...Alex Slack ’06 is a history concentrator in Leverett House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...
...WHAT IS ALBERTA'S SOLUTION? Health and Wellness says it is adding facilities and staff to its system but can't continue to do so at the current rate indefinitely. That's why it wants the private sector to start taking up the slack, though only in three areas: knee and hip replacement and certain kinds of eye surgeries, such as cataract operations. The idea is that that would bring additional funding into the system and more fully employ medical staff. To work in the private sector, medical practitioners will have to submit a "business plan" to the health ministry...