Word: upsetness
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...poll of the student body in 1976. A student organization called the Educational Resource Group distributed questionnaires concerning calendar reform to approximately 250 students. The poll showed approximately 60 percent of students in favor of the reform, according to an April 1976 Crimson article entitled, “Students Upset With Calendar, Survey Shows.” While the poll was ultimately ignored by university administrators, the tactic survived a long hiatus to reappear in today’s campaign in modernized, online form. The current calendar referendum showed that 84 percent of the 3,467 respondents were in favor...
...Prime Minister as expected in June. It will highlight an anomaly that's existed since 1999, when Scotland created its own Parliament to address local issues: Scottish M.P.s still vote on English matters in Westminster, but English M.P.s have no say in Edinburgh. "I'd be upset by that too," says Crawford. "The way to solve that is to give England independence...
...pols "use security as an umbrella" to avoid contact with their electorates, says Ahern. "I'd go bonkers if I was stuck inside." Burnishing his everyman appeal is a gift for mangling sentences as thoroughly as President Bush: he famously warned against "throwing white elephants and red herrings" and "upsetting the apple tart." Ahern dresses like a man of the people, too. U2 frontman Bono has lobbied him on Africa and professes "enormous respect" for his countryman, who has committed to reaching the U.N.'s aid target ahead of schedule. But that respect isn't immediately reflected in Bono...
...Asked why she decided to protest today, Sydney B. Schaub, a third-year at the Law School, said, “Women’s rights in America are really abysmal under the law.” “I think we are all really upset about the opinion and there wasn’t really a public forum” in which to question the decision, said Joanna R. Pozen, a student at the Harvard School of Public Health. Rachel Wainer Apter, a third-year at the Law School, said that “having a spectacle funeral...
...referring the initial strikeout ruling. “It was tough to take. At the same time, you can’t always point to one pitch or one call that makes or breaks the game.”Another decision by the same umpire later in the game upset the Brown bench. After surrendering the three-run shot to Robert Papenhause that gave the Bears a 5-2 lead, Harvard starter Eric Eadington promptly hit the next batter, Ryan Murphy, in the back with his first pitch. The home-plate umpire warned both benches after the beaning. While there...