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...measure the health of any car made in 1996 or later. The little device plugs into a port below your car's dashboard and presents a red, yellow or green light to let you know if there's something wrong with the vehicle's electronics. It won't tell you if your tire pressure is low or give you a detailed breakdown on all of the car's systems. But it will give you a quick sense of what the problem is likely to be, if there is one, and even estimate how much it should cost for an appropriate...
...much ink has already been spilled on or about boredatlamont.com, the tell-all forum that stormed onto the Harvard scene earlier this year. But during this reading period lull, the site has exploded into a disturbingly personal discussion that warrants attention from a much wider audience than those just looking for sex, comedy, or an ego boost...
...meeting, a rodeo cowboy equating Arabs and Muslims with suicide bombers, or Borat's attempt to buy a handgun suitable for Jew-killing, would have tripped the censors' sensors. But Borat has gone almost the length of its commercial run without public outcry - and, as far as I could tell, without a single cut from the original. In a random sampling, Lebanese audiences laughed at the same moments as did those in New York, though film critics at a special preview arranged for the Lebanese press were surprised to learn that there was anti-Semitism in America. "In the Middle...
Standing before Mukesh Mehta’s household adornments (in Montana, mind you, on the cusp of 2006), I gesture to the telltale gold-fringed palanquin and the turbaned figure of the emperor. I note how he is enveloped by a halo. A Mughal durbar, I tell Mukesh. Maybe Jahangir. Perhaps Akbar. But certainly not Aurangzeb—he didn’t go for this artsy-fartsy stuff...
Hypocrisy is hardly foreign to Harvard University, yet I still find it ironic and somewhat disconcerting that so many Harvard students are willing to consume obscene amounts of alcohol every weekend but blithely stigmatize the minority of their peers who like to get high. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen people—who apparently have no problem blacking out, puking in a toilet bowl, and hooking up with utter strangers—shudder with horror and righteous indignation when someone mentions smoking weed. Of course, this silly taboo among Harvard students...