Word: waiting
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...Well for me I would say, I’ve never felt very integrated with the academic, I shouldn’t say fads but what’s currently hot in the academy, and I’ve always been pretty skeptical of it. Fortunately, if you wait long enough it always goes away and is replaced by something else. Consequently, I’ve always struggled in writing academic books about how much I have to play their game and frame what I’m saying in such a way that they’ll recognize...
...think I can right now. I always get this awful stomachache when I drink too much. Most Sundays I drive to the Y and force myself to dive into the pool and swim it off, but right now I just need to have some cereal and wait.”She gives up on the offer and opens the cutlery drawer to get me a spoon instead. In so doing, she dislodges a turquoise bra that’s stuck in the corner where the drawer meets the oven. Dangling it up to the snowy light...
...right will bring you to the Main Dining Room, where a reservation is key—but these can be made online with no inquiries as to membership status or Harvard affiliation. After a few questions about the reasons for being there, FlyBy was directed to this area to wait to be seated. All staff members were very polite, but FlyBy still felt some skepticism under there. Jeans and backpacks, while standard college student attire, are not included in the dress code at the Faculty Club. Take note...
Sasha and Malia Obama's long awaited puppy, Bo, has finally made his White House debut yesterday amid the cattle herd that is the White House press corps. But wait, a dog named Bo? As in Barack Obama's initials? With all the Harvard heavyweights manning the ship of state, no one could come up with a more creative name than Bo? FlyBy thinks B.O.'s claims to membership of the academic elite are seriously undermined by his utterly unimaginative choice of name...
Army Captain Keith Bell, former commander of the Army sniper school at Fort Benning, Ga., can't wait to get his hands on the new rifle. "The EXACTO would be revolutionary," he says. "It will more than double our range and probably more than double our accuracy." Current sniper rifles can regularly hit trucks at 2,000 meters, but not bad guys. (The record kill is 2,430 meters, just over 1.5 miles. It was charted by Canadian army corporal Rob Furlong against a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan's Shah-i-kot valley during Operation Anaconda in March...