Word: stuck
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...thought it was time we took Harvard students down a notch. People at Harvard are so stuck up about having the top rank in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, and being the oldest university in the United States, and having the largest academic library in the world, and enjoying the most comprehensive financial aid program in the country, and having the wealthiest endowment of any school in history. WHO CARES? Our school provides a kind of education that Harvard’s $37 billion can?...
...struck. Eventually, I left to walk through the wreckage of Hanwang. Unclaimed bodies lay under bloody sheets. A 20-ft.-tall (6 m) statue of a rider on horseback had been decapitated by the violent shaking. The hands of a clock in a tower in the town square were stuck at 2:28 p.m. When I returned to where Deng was waiting, two covered corpses were lying outside the massage parlor. A family member identified Deng's mother. A soldier yelled at a dog that sniffed at the bodies. Deng called me over. In a voice cracked with emotion...
...squads will play as hard tomorrow as they would have if both teams were stuck in the Ancient Eight basement...
...game, for 12 months by the media, by the alumni, by the coaching staff. I know one thing. This may be as hungry a Yale team as we’ve ever seen, so we’d better be hungrier.”The Crimson players have wisely stuck with the company line, repeating that this weekend’s contest is just another game. But tomorrow afternoon, as the school’s third Ivy championship in the past five years hangs in the balance, their intensity will indicate that it is much, much more—after...
...dress up in costume for such inventive theme ideas as “the 80’s” and “the 90’s.” Of course, when the party inevitably dies at around midnight, you’ll be stuck wandering around the River in spandex tights and a side ponytail, but such is the price you must pay for a few hours of “fun.” Instead of mingling with the class of 2012, why don’t you break through the Harvard bubble and check...