Word: spoiledness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Of all the people on my holiday shopping list this season, there's one little boy for whom buying a gift has become increasingly difficult. He's a wonderful child, adorable and loving, and he's not fussy or petulant or spoiled. Though he lives across the country from me...
Todd Beamer and the three men who are assumed to have challenged the hijackers of Flight 93, perhaps saving the White House, was hailed by readers who called him "a real guy who put others first," who "disputed the thoughts that we are fat, spoiled, shallow, and complacent."
That said, take the trees down already. Inappropriate as it is, the swastika comparison shows that to some people, public endorsement of a Christmas tree might be the spiral arm of something dire. And if Christmas trees are so harmless and secular, why are we bent on erecting them? To...
At a lunch last year with another fomer vice president, Walter F. Mondale, a few students felt that it was appropriate to turn up, albeit 50 minutes late, in exercise clothes as “they had just come from the Mac.” That Harvard students should feel...
Assisted by a student translator enlisted at the last minute, Tepepa described the oppressive conditions that she and others had suffered in the Kukdong factory. She spoke of spoiled cafeteria food, physical and psychological mistreatment at the hands of managers, and painfully low wages. Workers, mostly young women and largely...