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...everyday incident in his backyard that first piqued Stephens' fascination with cursing. While building a shed in his garden, he accidentally hammered his little finger. "I whacked my hand really, really hard," he says, "and while it was throbbing, I swore a bit." Being a psychologist, of course that got him thinking, Why did I react in that way? Later, he witnessed his wife do the same thing while giving birth to their daughter - at moments of intense pain, she would holler expletives. "She immediately apologized," he remembers, "but [the medical staff] said, 'Don't apologize! We get this...
...Khamenei affirmed his support for Ahmadinejad, saying the President's views on foreign affairs and social issues were close to his own. He also accused the other candidates of insulting Ahmadinejad before the election. "They swore and called the president superstitious and called him names, which is embarrassing. They forgot about morality and law," he said...
...Missed Opportunities One answer to that question is, because Pakistan's leaders have been so feckless. When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007, her husband Zardari assumed leadership of her political party and then the presidency. Zardari swore to bring his wife's killers to justice. He has not done so, instead wasting an opportunity to rally the nation against terrorism. There is no national media campaign to combat Taliban propaganda and no clerics on TV or radio denouncing suicide bombers. See pictures of Bhutto's Village in Mourning...
...estate holdings: 4,947 acres Number of student centers: 0 centers Fall-term enrollment in Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics”: 812 students Harvard Endowment Loss: Over eight billion Length of Girl Talk’s performance: 20 minutes Number of times CEB representatives swore at the audience: A whole fucking lot. Harvard professors lost to the Obama Administration: 13 professors Yale professors lost to the Obama Administration: 1 professor Yardfest attendance: 7,100 people Number of songs students could sing along to: 1 (“I’m not going to write...
...Four days later, b. good called to tell Ehrlich that he’d won.“Winning the burger thing might have been the highlight of my freshman year,” Ehrlich says. “I went there every. waking. second.” He swore to the Crimson reporter covering his burger bonanza that he’d eat 1,000 by the time he left Harvard.Four years later, Ehrlich is getting ready to graduate and, by my calculations, he’s made good on his promise. After hundreds of burgers (despite...