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...What saddens me are students who think, because they’re sophomores or juniors in college, it’s too late to learn such-and-such languages,” she says...
...Nation," he says. "I'm not afraid to use swear words. If people want calm, high-minded debate, this is not the site for it." Called in to mediate disputes among community members, Moulitsas has all the patience of a drill sergeant. "I get it all the time: 'Such-and-such was mean to me,'" he says in a mock whine. "I feel like I'm in high school. Suck it up, this is politics." More to the point, "This...
...like, ‘We’re Harvard, we’re snobs,’” she says. “[But] at my graduation I don’t want to hear, ‘Here’s your degree from Harvard, presented by such-and-such a company.’”The rules are meant to prevent large companies from advertising all over the Yard, Zong realized—to protect the Harvard campus from the kind of commercialization that has overtaken so much of America’s public...
...tend to be less interested in looking at origins of such-and-such modern practice, and more interested in using the Middle Ages as a foil for modernity, as a mirror to understand our own culture,” Smail said...
...only a year out of TV's most popular sitcom, is not exactly a comeback candidate. But, she says, "I have had moments I worked through years ago where I felt I had to be sexier, to lose weight or that I was supposed to get on the cover of such-and-such magazine." As King puts it: "Forty-year-old doctor? Great. Forty-year-old professor? Great. Forty-year-old TV star? Dinosaur." So Valerie's hyper-self-consciousness--she's constantly signaling "time out" to the cameras during uncomfortable moments--is like an animal's defense reflex...