Word: upset
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Yeah, I expect to swim in a sea of universal love all the time and when I’m not in that sea I get upset...
...their best work at Harvard, instead of those who have peaked before they arrive. In addition to being outstanding researchers, these young junior faculty members are in many cases Harvard’s most popular, approachable, and dedicated teachers, which is why undergraduates and graduate students alike are so upset when top candidates are denied tenure. Harvard’s reluctance to tenure junior professors sends these top notch teachers away and deters young, enterprising academics from coming to Harvard. In addition to facing meager tenure prospects, Harvard junior faculty tend to be underpaid compared to nationwide averages, particularly...
...high school days,” says Matt B. Mizrahi, the co-director of the Penn Concert Planning Committee. But if you’re just one of the 7,000 expected to show up at this year’s Yardfest, don’t be too upset: as Goldenberg says, “No one else gets to have their concert in Harvard Yard.” Plus if that doesn’t convince you, maybe this will: Tire. Swings. Nostalgia...
...their part, the lonely couple didn't seem any more upset after the chanting than they had been before. After Bush and his entourage had filed out to a back room, the couple rose, held hands and walked out, she crying, he biting his lip. They were escorted to a back room where Bush and the First Lady were meeting with survivors. Bush hugged them and consoled them. And he learned that they were one of two couples that had lost their only child...
...November 1, 1991: Iowa City, Iowa Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China reportedly upset because he was passed over for an academic honor, opens fire in two buildings on the University of Iowa campus. Five University of Iowa employees are killed, including four members of the physics department, and two other people are wounded. The student fatally shoots himself...