Word: teapots
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ultimately, this is a little tempest in a teapot,” he said. “It will blow over... It’s not something I’m very upset about...
...allowed in Harvard dorm rooms is the microfridge, rented from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) for the low, low price of $250 a year plus deposit. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. HSA’s microfridge is just as illegal as any other microwave, rice cooker, coffee pot or teapot that students might secret away in a corner of their room. But Harvard administrators don’t know this, and for about seven years, they’ve been protecting HSA’s virtual monopoly on the devices by repeating the mantra in entryway meetings and confiscating other...
...dangerous is your teapot, anyway? FM called The Cambridge Fire Department’s Fire Prevention bureau to ask them why microwaves were considered a fire hazard in dorm rooms...
When actual storm clouds loom on the horizon--terrorism, recession, government scandal--people long for a tempest in a teapot. That's just what the skating brouhaha provided, and it's what the Games provide as a whole. The fog of war, which we hear so much about these days, doesn't apply on the men's downhill course or the bobsled track. The distances of Olympic events are fixed. Five hundred meters. A thousand. No more, no fewer. The times are measured to the hundredth of a second by instruments that don't waver. No messy relativism...
...hope that this tempest in a teapot will not distract Summers for long from important efforts in the area of undergraduate education. He must continue to work for faculty cooperation to achieve the goals he set out in his inaugural address. And we anticipate that in the future, Summers will be able to pursue University-wide excellence without such controversies. After all, the president of an institution of higher education must be able to learn as well as to teach...