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...bizarre minimalist format (“STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE [verb] [clause].” Now repeat that four times.), and it even seems uncertain about its own content ("content is non-specialized and may include essays, interviews, treatises, projects. propositions...”—you get the drift). Sources report it's the brainchild of Sabrina Chou...
...felt the pull of Twitter too. There's a Famous Writer I like who Twitters. I follow her. (She also blogs and Facebooks, or whatever the verb is.) She Twitters wittily about her dog and her meals and her friends. Sometimes she Twitters about Twittering. I like it. When I get a tweet from her, I feel a bit like I'm in her Famous presence--like she's a distant sun warming me from across the universe, one precious little sunbeam at a time. (I'll leave her identity a matter of speculation. Tweets are public yet also weirdly...
...Pains of Being Pure At Heart: it demands ellipses, or at the very least, abbreviation. The Pains, TPOBPAH, perhaps PBPH, or, as their label Slumberland Records prefers, POBPAH. One verb short of a clause, it is arguably the most misguided decision in band-naming since the exclamation point in Panic! At the Disco. Thankfully, Kip, Kurt, Alex, and Peggy—who, in a seeming reversal on their word count policy, prefer to forego their surnames—are much better at making music than they were at christening themselves.On their self-titled debut album, they prove themselves...
...pamphlet, “Women deserve better than abortion,” the FFL again dismisses the viability of abortion as a choice by claiming that it is “no choice for most.” Frequently pairing the verb “coerce” with the term abortion, the FFL cites statistics (gathered by pro-life groups) which show that lack of financial and emotional support motivate women to terminate their pregnancies. But, even if these statistics are accurate, the fact that many abortions occur under duress does not disqualify them as legitimate choices made...
...sake, get up and cheer.Principle 2: The definition of a cheerWhen someone starts a cheer, you cheer. That’s why it’s called a cheer. It’s one of those words that is a noun, but it’s also a verb, and the two are really close in meaning, just different grammatical meanings. So, like you cheer, a cheer. It may sound like I’m speaking to five-year olds, not the distinguished Harvard students that we all are. But moving away from the land of books to the land...