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...himself, clasping his meat like a hunk of mastodon, gnawing flesh that resists seductively before it yields, squirting fluids red with blood and fat over my hands and down my chin...Elbows out, the men sitting either side of me lunge for the platter to see who can sop up the most sauce with their bread and fill their triple-sized shot glasses from the bottles of Maker's Mark that line the tables, to see who can toss down the most boilermakers. This meal is not for wimps. As we tear and chew and slurp, the band segues...
...Father's Day staple--nearly 4.5 million dads are getting one on June 15--and one of the few fashion accessories to have survived nearly 400 years of social change. Neck adornments have been worn since ancient times to signify title or wealth or even just to sop up sweat. But modern, mostly decorative neckwear dates from King Louis XIV of France, who first popularized the tie's predecessor, the cravat, after spotting the bow-tie-like embellishment on 17th century Croatian soldiers...
...demise that we fear - the notion that the American go-getter must inevitably be gotten. "Mother of Mercy, is this the end of Rico?" Robinson moans at the end of Little Ceasar -as surprised as we are by a death that may be tragically ordained, but is also a sop to conventional morality...
...doubt most denizens of the Ivory Tower laughed off Mr. Hunter’s affront to academic freedom. This very newspaper published a staff editorial parodying the bill as a simple-minded and jingoistic sop to the congressman’s far-right constituency. Academic freedom—or, more precisely, the freedom for academics to say, and host forums for others to say, the most outlandish things—has become such an unexamined prerogative that few find it necessary to defend...
...Harvard version of RateMyProfessor.com,” as one professor claimed at a Faculty meeting, evaluations are a valuable tool for pedagogical improvement, without which teachers are essentially feedback-blind. Though few professors opt out of such evaluations, leaving the option open at all amounts to providing a sop to professors’ whims and egos. While the Faculty did vote to mandate evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs)—a critical step in the University’s recognition of the importance of teaching ability among those responsible for students’ education here?...