Word: touche
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...year? Join the crew at Barnacle Busters of South Florida and perfect your marine biology while scrubbing the keel of the yacht you one day hope to own. Or steal. Whatever. A bit of a homebody? Can’t get enough of the balmy Boston summer? Keep in touch with that good old college spirit while attending Red Sox home games as an alcohol compliance officer. Just imagine the glory of being paid to be that douchebag who tells everyone they have had too much to drink! But we all know the fastest way to capitalize on summer...
Let’s be clear: Imus’s comments were plainly racist, sexist, and misogynistic. His words certainly touch a raw nerve in this (retired) female collegiate athlete. Imus’s derision was especially damaging because his “nappy-headed hos” comment reached a major network audience. The punch lies in the fact that he has a lot of power; the basketball team does not. It’s simply not fair...
...Drill Field at noon, thousands had gathered to write messages of love and remembrance on easels and light candles in the chapel. But even amid public acts of mourning, stoicism reigned. Rob Yanskie, a childhood friend of Caitlin Millar Hammaren, who was killed in Norris Hall, bent down to touch a stone to be dedicated in her name, one of 32 arranged in a half-circle on the grass. He had driven from New York with another of Hammaren's friends to say goodbye. They did not weep. "Basically we've decided to celebrate her life instead of mourning...
...you’ve all put on 20 pounds!” The reality is our social scene is a practice in lameness and restriction: “No I don’t want another drink,” “No don’t touch me like that,” “No I can’t kiss you, I have mono.” From Expos on, Harvard students are drilled in the art of sucking at having fun. “What’s the big deal anyway? It?...
...three of her liberal colleagues, Stephen Breyer, John Paul Stevens and David Souter. It's as fiery as anything turned out by conservative rabble-rouser Antonin Scalia, probably the court's best writer. She dismisses the majority's logic as "bewildering," the product of old men out of touch: "This way of thinking reflects ancient notions about women's place in the family and under the Constitution - ideas that have long since been discredited...