Word: vacuums
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With the arrival of this titillating culinary experience comes an alarming realization: there is a shocking lack of vending machine diversity on the Harvard campus. While other universities enjoy their personal pizzas and vacuum delivered ice creams, Harvard students are left with stale pretzels and flat Cherry Coke. Diet Cherry Vanilla Dr. Pepper exists, but we aren’t tasting...
...boycott Dormaid. Everyone’s certainly busy, but Harvard students shouldn’t choose convenience over healthy relationships with their blockmates. It’s up to each one of us to ensure that our peers feel comfortable on campus, and if that means plugging in a vacuum every two weeks, then...
...college doesn’t exist in a vacuum,” he said, “but is affected by the levels of drinking and laws about drinking around...
...Hizballah ostensibly rallied in solidarity with Syria, which faces overwhelming pressure from the international community to pull out its security forces. More importantly, perhaps, the event was a warning shot to anyone in the international community considering foreign intervention designed to remake Lebanon or to fill the vacuum that would result from a Syrian departure. Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah may be particularly concerned that the U.S. and France might try to send in an international stabilization force to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1559, which mandates not only Syrian withdrawal, but also the disarming of all militias - an unmistakable...
...relief when she swaps her yolk-smeared clothes for a cleaning job. Yet it's here that she learns what it is to be truly invisible. When she ventures to speak in one office, "the balding man whose office it was looked about, frowning, as if the vacuum cleaner had developed a voice." The treatment at two Melbourne hotels where she works as a breakfast attendant is better, although she still finds herself serving breakfasts that cost more than she earned in one and a half hours. Her final job, working in two nursing homes, is eye-witness journalism...