Word: vacuumed
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...crew of 'Poonsters led by President Brian A.Kelley '94 returned to the dormitory armed with anew table, a vacuum and mop, two dozen white rosesand a violinist. "I'm very sorry," Kelley said ashe attended the students, scrubbed beer off thewall and offered them a $200 gift certificate atGiovanni's, a restaurant in the North...
...worth. Even the music is chosen purely for laughs--seeing Williams prance about in heels to the tune of "Walk Like A Man," "Dude Looks Like A Lady" and "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag" is amusing, and his attempts at housecleaning include the requisite dance-with-the-vacuum-cleaner...
That is all a far cry from the narrow spectrum of mostly Christian believers so celebrated by Crevecoeur, who foresaw "religious indifference" spreading from one end of the continent to the other. Where that would lead, he wondered, "no one can tell; perhaps it may leave a vacuum fit to receive other systems." In America's third century, that vacuum has been filled to overflowing...
...overarching symbolism of the move is perhaps its most disturbing aspect. As the Humanities are carted across Quincy Street, and the Social Sciences are banished almost to Law-School-Siberia, one might be curious what will fill the vacuum at the physical center of the university. What inevitably fills new space in a bureaucratic organism? More organs of bureaucracy. Boylston, now a convenient and centrally located academic building, will quarter the Freshman Dean's Office. Perhaps this is compensation for the proctors loss of pet-keeping privileges. Considering the importance that Rudenstine ascribes to physical position, we should all recognize...
...with ethical difficulties -- not the least of which is the assumption that a defective embryo will be discarded, an action that most right-to-life advocates equate with murder. Medical ethicists have worried for some time that advances in reproductive technology in the U.S. are proceeding in an ethical vacuum, one created not by the technology but by the politics of abortion. "Congress and our state legislatures are fearful of anything that gets them near the abortion debate," complained Caplan. "As a result, we have had no systematic discussion of surrogacy, of what to do with frozen embryos when parents...