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...sure, underneath the sartorially chic and smug exterior was a Ph.D. in English (from Cambridge University) who completely failed to read the sad irony of his own brand name-bantering remark. Apparently in the world according to Gates, legitimacy is to be had only by positioning oneself behind established labels: the Latin Quarter, Burberry, Paul Stewart, Porsche, Cambridge, now Harvard, the list goes...
...silently in my back row seat and observed my fellow students chuckling and cracking jokes, I thought to myself: don't be so smug. Remember, when it comes to an election, or for that matter to a social movement, economic theory will always lose to the gut reaction. William E. Pike...
...squabble endlessly, humorlessly, inconsequentially, and Lindo and Woodard, both fine actors, are given only one note apiece to sound, respectively patience and impatience. In a middle passage, little Troy is sent to visit relatives in the South for no particular reason, except possibly to register Lee's disdain of smug bourgeois ways, and to contrast this with the fractiousness of her siblings and the liveliness of city street life. In the end, as if to make up for missed dramatic opportunities, Carolyn Carmichael is suddenly stricken with an undefined terminal illness. But fear, grief, loss -- the powerful emotions bound...
Although no trophies or medals were awarded this weekend at the round-robin Harvard women's water polo invitational, the Crimson Squad can't help but feel a little smug about its performance...
...august leadership so rapt with the idea of its own Parliamentary Sovereignty that it couldn't care less about student opinion? After all, when the council's only sins were bumbling and incompetence, most students couldn't have cared less about them. But the insolent and smug dismissal of a petition with strong popular support is enough to halt the council's slide into irrelevance and raise the ire of heretofore (justifiably) uninterested students. The council can surely expect a jump in refund requests next semester; and, thankfully, Gabay, unlike his autocratic mentor in Kigali, has no well-armed Presidential...