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...only a risk for Asians and Mexicans "living in slums," went on the offensive. In his own statement on March 15, he questioned why, if easyJet values punctuality as its website claims, the airline hasn't published its weekly on-time flight ratings since last April. "Like all spoilt children, [Haji-Ioannou] laps up the attention of being Mr. easyJet, but he can't take the criticism, even when in this case it's valid," he said in his message. Then things got truly bizarre. O'Leary reiterated an earlier challenge he'd made to Haji-Ioannou to settle their...
...Memorial Church grants committee, which has repeatedly decided to support PBHA financially. Gomes expressed his enthusiasm for what he called “the best course at Harvard” and discussed his role at PBHA since 1974. “A good thing cannot be killed, spoilt or ruined,” he said. “The best that is in Brooks House will always flourish and redeem Harvard in the long term...
...antique, the antithesis of hip. Imagine a communist partygoer, desperately trying to turn the conversation to surplus value over the strains of Soulja Boy’s new single, “Yahhh!” Unlucky fellow.What was once a fiery outlet for leftist political fervor has been spoilt by a suite of suppressive bourgeois mechanisms; in its place slips the anesthetic comfort of supporting Barack Obama, perhaps ‘preferring’ Dennis Kucinich. Students themselves aren’t to blame for this zeallessness, though, but the confluence of events utterly beyond our control.Not least...
Climate change geeks with a thing for international conferences - like me - were spoilt for choice this past week. You could rub shoulders with national leaders from over 80 countries - or just their junior advisers, depending on the color of your badge - at the United Nations high-level meeting on climate. You could Amtrak down to the White House and hear President George W. Bush tell the world's major economies that this global warming thing might actually be a problem and that we should maybe consider doing something about it eventually. Or you could catch the Clinton Global Initiative...
...reading and asks if the term paper can exceed the set page limit, and those oblivious types who insist on sitting in the aisle seats of soon-to-be crowded lecture halls to cause maximum inconvenience to everyone else. Worse of the lot, however, are the semi-spoilt brats who complain about not having money to buy their grande skim lattes. I know this, because I am one of them. I am a card-carrying member of that horde of perpetually complaining masses known as the College Poor, a group fueled week to week by their wages from...